Sodium hydroxide

...area. But much of that bad water will flow first into a perforated pipe and then into chemical cleansing ponds to be mixed with sodium hydroxide, or lye. The alkaline lye will neutralize the acidic water to solidify the dissolved metals.

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...I felt a little like Professor Berry in the Chris Rock-starring documentary Good Hair. When he learns that many black women routinely apply sodium hydroxide to their hair in order to "relax" and straighten it, he says, stunned, "Oh, I...

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Valencia McLeod, Buddha Mali and Pauline Samuel, from left, all students at Baltimore City Community College, do a chemical analysis of sodium hydroxide at the college's new Life Sciences Institute at the University of Maryland's...

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...either had their hair relaxed, or they're having their hair relaxed right now." The active ingredient in relaxer is a substance called sodium hydroxide. The chemical is so strong it can burn a woman's hair off -- which is why Rock is...

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...polymer mud with 4% oil + 0.4% NaOH + 0.2% CMC-LV + 5% SMP-1 + 4% SPNH + 2.0% MHR-86D + 11% pulverized lime. In the formula, NaOH is sodium hydroxide, CMC-LV is low-viscosity sodium carboxymethylcellulose, SMP-1 is sulfomethylated...

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...is her trademark "It's so easy to manage because I have a lot of hair. I love it." The most common ingredient in relaxers is sodium hydroxide or lye. In the documentary, an aluminium can dipped in a bowl containing the chemical melts...

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...cent due to higher prices of calcium ammonium nitrate n-content (eight per cent), liquid chlorine (two per cent) and caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) (one per cent). However, the prices of p v c resins (six per cent) declined. The index...

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...and syntax has even working-class women spending a fortune on expensive weaves that can't be touched, fondled or wetted, or have sodium hydroxide rubbed into children's scalps to get them on "the creamy crack" - relaxers - pretty much from...

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...the documentary delves into more than just jokes. Rock meets with a chemist to discuss the science of hair relaxers and the damage that sodium hydroxide (relaxers' main chemical) can do to hair and scalps. He also travels to India and looks at...

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