HS Code:28151100,CAS No.: 1302-73-2

Standard Executed: GB210-92

Properties: White irregular flakes or granules, solid for big lumps.

 

It’s used for manufacturing of chemicals, paper, aluminum smelting, refining tungsten, artificial silk, rayon and soap, production of dyes, plastics, pharmaceutical and organic intermediates, the old rubber recycling, metal sodium, water electrolysis as well as the inorganic salt production, preparation of borax, chromium salts, manganese salts, phosphate, etc.

 

Applications:

1.   Used as the most common paint stripper on the wooder objects.

2.   Used in conjunction with zinc for creation of the famous “Gold Pennis” experience.

3.   Used in the refining of alumina containing ore(bauxite)to produce alumina(aluminum oxide) which is the raw material used to produce aluminium metal via the smelting process.

4.   Used in soap making (cold process soap, saponification). Food uses of sodium hydroxide include wasing or chemical peeling of fruits and vegetables.

5.   Used in the home as a drain cleaning agent for clearing dogged drains.

6.   Used as a cleaner in breweries, where it is simply called “caustic”.