What happens when you add a vinegar-soaked potato in a baking soda solution? Is there an enzyme involved?

When you add a vinegar-soaked potato into a baking soda solution, a chemical reaction occurs. This is because vinegar, or acetic acid, reacts with baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, to produce carbon dioxide gas, water, and sodium acetate.

Here are the steps of the reaction:

1. Soak the potato in vinegar. The potato absorbs the vinegar, which contains acetic acid.

2. Add the vinegar-soaked potato to a solution of baking soda. The acetic acid in the vinegar reacts with the sodium bicarbonate in the baking soda.

3. The reaction produces carbon dioxide gas, water, and sodium acetate. You will see bubbles forming around the potato, which is the carbon dioxide gas being released.

4. The remaining substances, water and sodium acetate, stay in the solution.

As for the second part of your question, no, there is no enzyme involved in this reaction. This is a simple acid-base reaction that doesn't require any biological catalyst. Enzymes are proteins that speed up biochemical reactions in living organisms, but the reaction between vinegar and baking soda is purely chemical, not biochemical.