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Example sentences for "caustic soda"

  • The water is then drawn off, 10 barrels of solution of caustic soda (sp.

  • The caustic soda solution having been drawn off, 30 barrels of a solution of litharge in caustic soda is added.

  • Its nature is easily recognized with the microscope, or by adding a strong solution of caustic soda to the sediment, which is thereby transformed into a gelatinous mass (Donne's test).

  • Crystals of calcium oxalate are insoluble in acetic acid or caustic soda.

  • This prepares a fresh solution of sodium hypobromite with excess of caustic soda, which serves to absorb the carbon dioxid set free in the decomposition of urea.

  • Permanent hardness in water, due to the presence of gypsum or sulphate of lime in solution, may be remedied by addition of caustic soda.

  • To show this, we take a quantity of flowers of sulphur, dissolve in caustic soda, and add to the lead solution.

  • To this mixture a solution of caustic soda is added until the precipitate first formed is just re-dissolved, so as not to leave an excess of caustic soda present.

  • The mite may be detected more readily by placing scrapings on black cardboard and warming, or better by macerating scabs or scrapings in a solution of caustic soda or potash and then examining them microscopically.

  • The addition of a dilute solution of caustic soda or potash greatly aids the examination, as it removes the layer of cells adhering to the fungus, which obscures the structure.

  • Ammonia, caustic soda, and caustic potash (lye) are those to which animals are most exposed.

  • The object is then wrapped round with strips of zinc, and placed in a 5% solution of caustic soda.

  • A 5% solution of caustic soda is then poured over the whole, the immediate result of which is an evolution of gas.

  • To prepare this, sodium sulphide is dissolved in water, or flowers of sulphur are boiled in a solution of caustic soda.

  • The whole is then placed into a 5% solution of caustic soda[126].

  • Where the pot has been neglected, boiling it out with a solution of caustic soda is sometimes a remedy.

  • Both animal and vegetable fats are used, and different forms of alkali, usually potash or caustic soda, the former for soft, the latter for hard, soap.

  • A cement which does not have this defect is made by boiling 3 parts of resin and 1 of caustic soda in 5 of water.

  • Apply by removing the film of grease from the tin by a solution of caustic soda (10 parts of water to 1 of soda).

  • The greenish gas at once arises, leaving behind it a residue of caustic soda.

  • There was plenty of caustic soda to be had, but high grade ferrosilicon, a production of large electrolytic furnaces, was scarce, because of its heavy consumption in the steel industry.

  • The decomposition of common salt solution into chlorine and caustic soda on the commercial scale How Enameled Letters are Made.

  • The operation consisted in treating the wood for six hours at a pressure of from six to eight atmospheres, with a solution of caustic soda of 12° B.

  • The anodes and cathodes are separated by the special diaphragms, and each vessel is thus divided into ten anode or chlorine sections and ten cathode or caustic soda sections.

  • The operations are carried on in large cast steel crucibles, and the charges consist of caustic soda and a finely ground artificial compound of carbon and iron, which is the reducing agent.

  • The crude pyrofuxin is extracted by repeated boilings in a solution of caustic soda.

  • There is hardly any appreciable loss or waste of materials, and from four pennyworth of caustic soda is ultimately obtained one pound of sodium.

  • Evaporate and ignite, transfer to a silver dish, and fuse with four or five times its weight of caustic soda, cool and extract with a little water, then add an equal volume of alcohol, and allow to stand overnight.

  • Caustic soda, sodium sulphide and sulphurous acid may also be advantageously employed on account of their softening and antiseptic action.

  • Perhaps the use of sodium sulphide or caustic soda in conjunction with the American wash wheel is the safest method.

  • While on this subject of caustic potash, it cannot be too often repeated that caustic potash is a totally different article to caustic soda, though just like it in appearance, and therefore often sold as such.

  • The process of making pure neutral potash soap is very simple, and almost identical with that for making hard soap with pure powdered caustic soda.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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