How to Use sodium hydroxide in a Sentence

sodium hydroxide

noun

• When the natural wood is boiled in a mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite, the chemicals break down the lignin in the wood.
  — Leah Froats, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2018
• So the Hanford workers added huge amounts of sodium hydroxide to neutralize the acid.
  — Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
• 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
• In this case, chromium chloride and sodium hydroxide swap ions.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 11 May 2021
• First, the researchers put blocks of wood in a boiling bath filled with water, sodium hydroxide and other chemicals for about two hours.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2016
• One thousand pounds of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, leaked from the tank, according to the response center report.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Within a few hours, the level of sodium hydroxide, the chemical compound known as lye that’s added to dissolve heavy metals, had increased to 100 times the usual amount.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2021
• But at about 1:30 p.m., someone accessed it again, took control of the mouse, directed it to the software that controls water treatment and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide.
  — Frank Bajak, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021
• Yet that is exactly what a pretzel is, a snack whose deep brown shininess is usually achieved by a brief dip in water mixed with lye, aka sodium hydroxide.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
• Today's aerosol oven cleaners are often made with lye, or sodium hydroxide.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
• Manufacturers get chlorine gas as a byproduct of the process that makes sodium hydroxide.
  — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• The heavy texture of relaxers smooth out curls while the sodium hydroxide breaks those disulfide bonds so the hair is permanently locked into a different, straighter form.
  — Amber Rambharose, Allure, 10 Dec. 2020
• Most of these entered the waste as an unintended consequence of using cheap sodium hydroxide, Kruger said.
  — Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
• More than 20 years ago, a couple of Emory University researchers with a lot of time on their hands tried to dissolve Peeps in water, acetone, sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide.
  — al, 31 Mar. 2021
• One of the chemicals commonly used in soaps and detergents is sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
• Their approach is to treat blocks of wood with sodium hydroxide and sodium sulphate in a chemical process similar to that used to remove lignin from papermaking pulp.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The substance is found in products such brake linings and gaskets, and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2022
• After watching all this, the Oldsmar plant operator quickly lowered the sodium hydroxide level and called his boss.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2021
• If the alkali is sodium hydroxide, the result is a hard soap, relatively difficult to dissolve.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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 operator watched as the intruder clicked into various software programs before landing on a function that controls the amount of sodium hydroxide, or lye, in the plant’s water system.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• The bottle is charged for six minutes to electrolyze it, creating a solution that looks like water but is a mix of hypochlorous acid (a powerful disinfectant) and sodium hydroxide (which works as a detergent and cuts through grease).
  — Janelle Nanos, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• The liquid commonly used for unclogging sinks, tubs and other drains contains sodium hydroxide or lye, which can be used for dissolving organic matter.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Historically about 25% of sodium hydroxide has been used by the paper industry.
  — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• Panicked, the lawsuit says, Traci Hall ran back into the restaurant and learned that an employee had filled her cup from a spigot that dispenses sodium hydroxide, a powerful solvent used to clean commercial cooking equipment.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
• If ingested in large amounts, sodium hydroxide can cause vomiting, chest and abdominal pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
  — Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2021
• During alkaline hydrolysis, a human body is sealed in a long, stainless-steel chamber, while a heated solution of 95 percent water and 5 percent sodium hydroxide passes over and around it.
  — Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2022
• Perlroth is correct—earlier this year, a single hacker tried to raise sodium hydroxide to poisonous levels in a U.S. water treatment facility.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• 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
• Cleaners that contain sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide are even worse.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024