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If you followed the directions and made sodium citrate out of citrus juice (citric acid) and baking soda, then you have personal experience that the two are different chemically.
Can two different things have the same common or colloquial name? Sure. Don't get your edible Himalayan pink salt mixed up with your meat-curing pink salt.
Are people ever mistaken, no matter how confident? Absolutely!
If you followed the directions and made sodium citrate out of citrus juice (citric acid) and baking soda, then you have personal experience that the two are different chemically.
Can two different things have the same common or colloquial name? Sure.
Are people ever mistaken, no matter how confident? Absolutely!
If you followed the directions and made sodium citrate out of citrus juice (citric acid) and baking soda, then you have personal experience that the two are different chemically.
Can two different things have the same common or colloquial name? Sure.
Are people even mistaken, no matter how confident? Absolutely!
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