NOUN
- a strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds
How To Use caustic soda In A Sentence
- Having withdrawn these coloured "foots," the second portion of the weak caustic soda solution is agitated with the partially refined oil, and, when the latter is sufficiently treated, it is allowed to rest and the settled coloured liquor drawn off as before. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
- The process of using the leaves for dye sounds extremely complicated, whether you ferment them (with or without adding urine), or extract the dye chemically, or just boil them and then treat the extract with caustic soda and sodium dithionite. Archive 2009-01-01
- Examples showing how to calculate the quantity of caustic soda solution needed for saponification by using the saponification value and the Baune-densimeter. Chapter 4
- Kathleen Jamie should have used quicklime rather than caustic soda to deflesh her gannet's skull, but maggots would have been best.
- Chemistry fans take note: lye is also called caustic soda and sodium hydroxide, but most people just call it lye.
- Then the wind got up, and coated everything with an invasive layer of caustic soda.
- When carbolic acid, formaline, bleaching powder, and caustic soda are used, the hands should be protected and the clothes should be well rinsed. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
- The pH can be adjusted by adding hydrated lime or caustic soda.
- Experts suggest that the burns experienced by villagers are most likely to be caused by caustic soda, which is frequently used in the production process. Times, Sunday Times
- Three bottles were filled with paraffin and the others with caustic soda. Times, Sunday Times
