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Definition of Caustic soda
1. Noun. A strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds.
Definition of Caustic soda
1. Noun. Common name for sodium hydroxide (NaOH), a strong alkaline substance used in the manufacture of paint and detergents, or as a drain cleaner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Caustic soda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Caustic Soda
Literary usage of Caustic soda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"The Mathieson Alkali Works made chiefly caustic soda and bleaching powder, the
product at Niagara Falls having been about 10 tons of caustic soda per day ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"Tlii'ie were several importations, all since the passage of the tariff net of
1857, and entered as caustic soda, paying a duty of four per cent ad valorem. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"... under the influence of hot caustic soda, a moving of the double bond of union
towards the carboxyl group takes place as follows : / )CH, ..."
4. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"Moreover, caustic soda has a felting action on these free filaments, and felting
is especially detrimental to lustre. In mercerizing cloth the action taking ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Soda-ash (as well as caustic soda) is sold by degrees of " available soda/' This
... Manufacture of caustic soda.—Most of the Leblanc liquor is nowadays ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"When caustic soda was added to alkalinity another band, intensity S, ...
Treated with caustic soda sp. 14 appeared. I may here mention that these same bands ..."
7. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1887)
""1 Any one of t ft. of powdered caustic soda, or 98 per cent, ¡these" to 1 lb.
of 1 ft. of ... caustic soda is high just now: Green- bank, 98 per cent, ..."
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