I also had a question about SC, hope I can leave it here (it doesn't contradict the title

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My (washing) soda's ingredients list sodium carbonate 30% as the only ingredient.
They're 'moist'/ 'wet' crystals/ lumps.
So my question would be- is S.C. hygroscopic and is the remaining 70% just water that I can remove by crushing the lumps of carbonate in a mortar and dry in the sun or in an oven to get pure(-r) S.C.?