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sodium hydroxide
noun
, Chemistry.
- a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
sodium hydroxide
noun
- a white deliquescent strongly alkaline solid used in the manufacture of rayon, paper, aluminium, soap, and sodium compounds. Formula: NaOH Also calledcaustic soda See also lye
sodium hydroxide
- A white, corrosive, solid compound that absorbs water and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and forms lye when in solution. Sodium hydroxide is toxic and strongly alkaline and is used to make chemicals and soaps and to refine petroleum. Chemical formula: NaOH.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sodium hydroxide1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
A portion was gently warmed with a few drops of a strong solution of potassium cyanide and two drops of sodium hydroxide.
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A portion of the water solution was heated with glucose and a few drops of sodium hydroxide.
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Still, the practical use of ammonia, especially in combination with sodium hydroxide, is found to be most effective.
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After being weighed, it can be dissolved in a little sodium hydroxide and poured into the bottle.
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The ferrous solution, used for reducing the silver citrate, had been brought to exact neutrality with sodium hydroxide.
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