sodium hydroxide
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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.
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| sodium hydroxide | |
| —n | |
| See also lye Also called: caustic soda a white deliquescent strongly alkaline solid used in the manufacture of rayon, paper, aluminium, soap, and sodium compounds. Formula: NaOH | |
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Medical Dictionary
sodium hydroxide n.
A strongly alkaline compound used externally. Also called caustic soda.
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| 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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Example sentences
Oxalic acid is made commercially by treating either sugar with nitric acid or cellulose with sodium hydroxide.
Sodium hydroxide spontaneously dissolves in water and releases heat in the process.
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