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Sodium Hydroxide

Definition: Sodium Hydroxide

Sodium Hydroxide

Noun

1. A strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Sodium Hydroxide

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Chemistry

It is the most important commercial caustic; white deliquescent solid, chiefly in form of beads or pellets; also 50 per cent and 73 per cent aqueous solution; absorbs water and carbon dioxide from the air; soluble in water, alcohol and glycerol. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

See:caustic soda. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Sodium Hydroxide

Synonym: caustic soda (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sodium Hydroxide

English words defined with "sodium hydroxide": castile soap, Caustic sodaFehling's solutionmercerised, mercerizedSoda lye. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sodium hydroxide": BALL-MILL OPERATOR, BLEACH-LIQUOR MAKERCausticsmercerised yarnpH modifiersulfate pulp, sulfate wood pulp, sulphate pulp, sulphate wood pulp. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sodium Hydroxide

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References

  • The World Market for Solid Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda): A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Determining the Molar Concentration of a Sodium Hydroxide Solution (reference)

  • Sodium hydroxide : environmental and technical information for problem spills (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sodium Hydroxide

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sodium hydroxide

235

sodium hydroxide solution

6

sodium hydroxide use

6

to buy sodium hydroxide

2
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Modern Translation: Sodium Hydroxide

Language Translations for "sodium hydroxide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

natronlud (caustic soda), kaustisk soda (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

natronloog (caustic soda), natriumhydroxyde (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), bijtende-sodaloog (caustic soda). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

natriumhydroksidi (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

   

French

  

soude liquide (caustic soda), soude caustique (caustic soda, sodium hydrate), lessive de soude (caustic soda, soda lye, sodium lye). (various references)

   

German

  

Natronlauge (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), Natriumhydroxid (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καυστική σόδα (caustic soda), υδροξείδιο του νατρίου (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), αλισίβα σόδας (caustic soda). (various references)

   

Italian

  

soda caustica (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

苛性ソーダ (caustic soda), 水酸化ナトリウ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すいさ"かナトリウ , かせいソーダ (caustic soda). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odiumsay ydroxidehay

   

Portuguese

  

soda líquida (caustic soda), soda cáustica (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), lixívia de soda cáustica (caustic soda), hidróxido de sódio (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

едкий натр (caustic soda). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sosa líquida (caustic soda), sosa cáustica (caustic soda), lejía de sosa (caustic soda). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

natriumhydroxid (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), NaOH (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic), kaustiksoda (caustic soda, sodium hydrate, white caustic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sodium Hydroxide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-h-i-i-m-o-o-r-s-u-x-y"

-5 letters: hydroxides.

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Alternative Orthography: Sodium Hydroxide


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 64 69 75 6D      48 79 64 72 6F 78 69 64 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01100100 01101001 01110101 01101101 00100000 01001000 01111001 01100100 01110010 01101111 01111000 01101001 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#100 &#105 &#117 &#109 &#32 &#72 &#121 &#100 &#114 &#111 &#120 &#105 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0064 0069 0075 006D      0048 0079 0064 0072 006F 0078 0069 0064 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381707587792429170848190757071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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