| Solvay has also purchased American Soda, which produces soda ash and sodium bicarbonate from deposits of nahcolite, a natural ore consisting essentially of bicarbonate. |
| Nahcolite can be used in traditional applications of sodium bicarbonate e.g., in baking soda and toothpaste. |
| Nahcolite commonly forms by reaction of carbon dioxide with the mineral trona in evaporated lake basins. |
| Dawsonite, nahcolite, quartz, dolomite, alabite, illite, analcime, and kerogen were used to prepare samples. |
