How to Use caustic soda in a Sentence

caustic soda

noun
  • Plants relied on sulfuric acid and caustic soda to leach and separate.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Plants were piling up sodium sulfate while importing caustic soda and other reagents by the tanker.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda or lye, is one of the chemicals to be stored at the location.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
  • The chlorine could be sold for disinfecting water, the caustic soda for making paper, soap and aspirin.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The Sri Lankan navy has said the ship was also carrying caustic soda, sodium methoxide and methane.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
  • Prices have begun to rise for products including caustic soda and polyethylene.
    — Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • One of the chemicals commonly used in soaps and detergents is sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The substance is found in products such brake linings and gaskets, and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda.
    — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The process enhances high-contrast laser etching and reduces caustic soda consumption in sulfur mercerizing.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Raw materials including coke, which helps to fuel iron-ore smelters, and caustic soda, used to extract alumina from bauxite, are also rocketing higher in price.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Chlorine and caustic soda were the focus of its chemical operation, financial statements show, driving more than $4 billion in annual sales.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The paradox was obvious because the facilities stockpiled sodium-sulfate waste while importing caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and other reagents by tanker load.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The substance is found in products such as brake linings and gaskets and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, including some that is used for water purification.
    — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • This is done by dissolving cellulose, a natural polymer that is the main constituent of plants’ cell walls, in chemicals like caustic soda and carbon disulphide and then turning the solution into soft filaments which can be spun into fibres.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • At the Kentucky depot, nerve agents were mixed with hot water and caustic soda to reduce their toxicity before being shipped to another facility for incineration, Abaie said.
    — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Their system, Aepnus Technology’s waste-to-reagent electrolyzer, has now logged thousands of hours converting sodium sulfate into high-purity caustic soda and sulfuric acid.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than treating it as waste, Aepnus feeds it into a modular electrolyzer that, when powered, drives electrochemical reactions to split and rearrange the ions into the original reagents – caustic soda and sulfuric acid.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The upshot system produces membrane-grade caustic soda, has fewer unwanted co-products, and demands roughly 40 percent less energy than legacy processes, according to Aküzüm.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement At the Kentucky depot, nerve agents were mixed with hot water and caustic soda to reduce their toxicity before being shipped to another facility for incineration, Abaie said.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023

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