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Why can't the Solvay Process be used to manufacture potassium carbonate?
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Potassium hydrogen carbonate is too soluble.
The Solvay Process cannot be extended to the manufacture of potassium carbonate because potassium hydrogencarbonate is too soluble to be precipitated by the addition of ammonium hydrogen carbonate to a saturated solution of potassium chloride.
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