Sodium Hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide is widely used in national economy

1. Making soap is the oldest and most extensive use of caustic soda.

2. Detergents: sodium hydroxide is used in the production of various detergents

3. Sodium hydroxide plays an important role in the paper industry. Because of its alkaline properties, it is used in the process of boiling and bleaching paper.

4. In the textile industry, sodium hydroxide is used for fiber processing and dyeing, and for mercerizing cotton fibers.

5. Sodium hydroxide can be widely used in the following production processes: container cleaning process; Starch processing; The preparation process of carboxymethyl cellulose; The process by which sodium glutamate is made.

6. Sodium hydroxide is widely used in water treatment.

7. Sodium hydroxide is used to treat bauxite, which contains alumina, the raw material for making aluminium.Alumina can be purified from concentrate with sodium hydroxide.