But the great feedstock of the chemicals industry is a different sodium chemical - sodium hydroxide ... Image source, Science Photo Library Today, over three-quarters of pulp production uses ...

after the freshly abraded surface is sprayed with strong concentrated sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.

Chemists have scrutinized a classic piece of bench chemistry — the explosion that happens when sodium metal hits water — and revised the thinking of how it works. On contact with water, the ...