Why was the sodium carbonate added in extraction of caffeine from tea with methylene chloride?!


Question: Why was the sodium carbonate added in extraction of caffeine from tea with methylene chloride!?
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Sodium carbonate is added to the tea to deprotonates the caffeine because only this particular form of caffeine will be water soluble!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
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