What does sodium hydroxide mean?

sodium hydroxide means "a strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds".

What is another word for sodium hydroxide?

Close synonyms include caustic soda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sodium hydroxide a common word?

sodium hydroxide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

sodium hydroxide — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
a strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds
Synonymscaustic soda
Broaderhydroxide lye

Questions about sodium hydroxide

What does sodium hydroxide mean?: sodium hydroxide means "a strongly alkaline caustic used in manufacturing soap and paper and aluminum and various sodium compounds".
What is another word for sodium hydroxide?: Close synonyms include caustic soda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is sodium hydroxide a common word?

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