How to Use caustic soda in a Sentence

caustic soda

noun

• So a bitter fight roiling the industry could be only about one thing: the price of caustic soda.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 7 May 2019
• The Sri Lankan navy has said the ship was also carrying caustic soda, sodium methoxide and methane.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Prices have begun to rise for products including caustic soda and polyethylene.
  — Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Other products made at the plant include PVC resins, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, oxygen, chlorine, dissolved acetylene, coated kettle agent, water treatment chemicals and new building materials, according to the company website.
  — Christopher Bodeen, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024