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Explain giving reasons :
(i) Tartaric acid is a component of baking powder used in making cakes.
(ii) Gypsum, `CaSO_(4).2H_(2)O` is used in the manufacture of cement.

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(i) Role of tartaric acid in baking posder (mixture of tartaric acid and sodium hydrogen carbonate) is to neturalise sodium carbonate formed upon heating sodium hydrogen carbonate.
`underset("carbonat")underset("Sod,hydrogen")(2NaHCO_(3))overset("heat")tounderset("Sod, carbonate")(Na_(2)CO_(3))+H_(2)O+CO_(2)`
In cast it is not done, cake will be bitter and sodium carbonate will also have injurious side effectss.
(ii) The role of gypsum `(CaSO_(4).2H_(2)O)` in the manufacture of cement is to slow down the process of setting of cement.
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