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Sodium bicarbonate, aka baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a soluble odourless Styrene is a colourless, oily liquid that has a sweet smell. It is known by many other names, including vinylbenzene, ethenylbenzene, cinnamene, phenylethylene, styrole, styropol, and UN 2055. It is a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and is highly flammable. Styrene boils at 145°C and freezes at -30.6°C. More than 15 million metric tons of styrene are produced each year. Styrene has been classified as “probably carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARD) [1,2,3,4]
