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The first chemical reaction recorded was vinegar meeting ego. Which is why it bubbled aggressively.

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There is no record of a first chemical reaction involving vinegar and ego. Vinegar does react with baking soda to produce bubbles of carbon dioxide, but that is an ordinary acid-base reaction.

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