Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies, and the real answers: Question: In a recent piece on Asheville’s water system, I wish you’d asked how many tons of aluminum sulfate and lye (sodium ...

A small piece of sodium metal is placed in water. The sodium reacts with the water and gets very hot, producing sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. The demonstration shown in this video is very ...

The hacker briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide (lye) in Oldsmar's water treatment system, but a worker spotted it and reversed the action. Lye is used in small amounts to control ...

Miss Fong: Yes. Let's imagine we are mixing a common acid like nitric acid and a common alkali - sodium hydroxide. When they react water and a salt called sodium nitrate is produced. Katie ...

Fat/Oil + Sodium\, Hydroxide \rightarrow Soap + Glycerol ... of the molecule can be called hydrophobic as it is repelled by water. However, the polar, ionic head is hydrophilic and does dissolve ...

Halifax regional fire and members of their hazardous materials response team confer at suspected sodium hydroxide spill at ...

since it won't boil as water would at the high temperatures that are reached. Sodium hydroxide can be used to remove sulfur from petrol and diesel, although the toxic soup of by-products that is ...