I hope everyone knows that caustic soda — sodium hydroxide — is really lye. It’s highly corrosive and has a viscosity 78 times that of water. How can any water authority consider it safe for ...

The best pretzels are often made with lye, a powerful but potentially dangerous ingredient. You can mimic its qualities with ...

The novel experiment proposed to study ways to slow climate change through dumping thousands of gallons of sodium hydroxide into waters less than 10 miles from Nomans Land won’t take place near the ...

The process requires lye and a common pool chemical used to decrease pH. Sodium hydroxide isn’t super safe, but it is much less problem to buy, store, and use than battery acid. Aluminum ...