Sodium Hydroxide 97% Granules
Sodium hydroxide is a potentially dangerous substance. It can hurt you if it touches your skin, if you drink it or if you breathe it. Eating or drinking sodium hydroxide can cause severe burns and immediate vomiting, nausea, diarrhea or chest and stomach pain, as well as swallowing difficulties.
Sodium hydroxide is a caustic reagent that is widely used to neutralize acids and prepare sodium salts of reagents. Sodium Hydroxide, Pellets have also been used with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (sc-264510) to make and SDS/NaOH solution for the decontamination of mycobacteria.
At room temperature, sodium hydroxide is a white crystalline odourless solid that absorbs moisture from the air. It is a manufactured substance. When dissolved in water or neutralized with acid it liberates substantial heat, which may be sufficient to ignite combustible materials. Sodium hydroxide is very corrosive. It is generally used as a solid or a 50% solution. Other common names include caustic soda and lye.
Sodium hydroxide is used to manufacture soaps, rayon, paper, explosives, dyestuffs, and petroleum products. It is also used in processing cotton fabric, laundering and bleaching, metal cleaning and processing, oxide coating, electroplating, and electrolytic extracting. It is commonly present in commercial drain and oven cleaners.
Formula: NaOH
Molar mass: 39.997 g/mol
IUPAC ID: Sodium hydroxide, Sodium oxidanide
Soluble in: Water, Ethanol, Methanol
Density: 2.13 g/cm³
Boiling point: 1,388 °C
Melting point: 323 °C
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