Is one of the important chemical raw materials, for making chemicals, cleaning agents, detergent, also used in neuroscientists have and making pharmaceuticals.

Most used in industry, a small part for civilian use. In industrial use soda, mainly is light industry, building materials, chemical industry, accounting for approximately 2/3; Followed by metallurgical, textile, oil, national defense, pharmaceutical and other industries. Glass industry is the biggest soda consumption departments, every tons of glass consumption soda 0.2 tons. Chemical industry for making the sodium silicate, sodium dichromate, sodium nitrate and sodium fluoride, baking soda, borax, trisodium phosphate, sodium etc. The metallurgical industry as smelting flux, dressing collectorless flotation agents, steelmaking and refined antimony used desulphurization agent. Dyeing industry as soft agent. Leather industry for raw material leather degreasing, neutralization chrome tanning and improve chrome tanned liquid alkalinity. Also used in the production of synthetic detergent additives sodium tripolyph-osphate and other sodium salt, etc. Consumption level of soda for the production monosodium glutamate, pasta, etc.