sodium hydroxide
noun
Examples of sodium hydroxide in a Sentence
Matthew Daly, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
This also includes the chlor-alkali industry, which uses asbestos diaphragms in the production of sodium hydroxide and chlorine, which are crucial for disinfecting drinking water and wastewater.1
The EPA has given these industries time to switch to other materials by setting deadlines.
—Syeda Khaula Saad, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2024
Today's aerosol oven cleaners are often made with lye, or sodium hydroxide.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
Cleaners that contain sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide are even worse.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
Water will happily accept that electron, but at a cost: the reaction creates sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and hydrogen gas (H2).
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2012
The important thing to keep running was the fan that pumped air through a canister of sodium hydroxide.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Supposedly, gentler, no-lye relaxers (without sodium hydroxide that can cause chemical burns) are also available, but Lane says the propensity for damage is still high.
—Tayler Adigun, Allure, 4 Oct. 2023
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff, a hacker gained remote access to Oldsmar’s water-treatment-plant network and briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water by 100 times—enough to cause death or serious injury to anyone who drank or touched it.
—Dave Weinstein, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
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Word History
1885, in the meaning defined above
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sodium hydroxide
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sodium hydroxide
nouncalled also caustic soda
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