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Sodium carbonite??

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I've got a formula for a B/W film developer that calls for "sodium carbonite". The only references I can find state that (A) it can't actually exist, chemically speaking, and (B) it was used to freeze Han Solo in Star Wars.

Given that this is an M/Q developer, am I possibly safe in thinking that he author meant to say sodium carbonate?
 

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I think the author, or whoever proof read the thing, made a boo-boo.
 

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But then would it not have been spelled cawbanite?
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Nah! We say the carb bit like a noonglander. 'Cah' but the rest is pure Oz.
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Maybe I heard it that way in Brooklyn.
 
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