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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sodium combines with water to produce an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and copious amounts of hydrogen gas, in a violently exothermic fashion. None of this is good for critters and it’s ...

sodium hydroxide + hydrochloric acid → sodium chloride + water Just enough hydrochloric acid is added from a burette to neutralise the sodium hydroxide. You can check the reaction mixture using ...

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 ...

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 ...

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