Hydroxide \Hy*drox"ide\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + oxide.] (Chem.) A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually with basic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.
A car that had contained 18,000 to 20,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide had been turned upright.
Complaints included potential problems with sodium hydroxide that reportedly was leaking into the surrounding water table and that employees weren't qualified to use respirators.
The cocaine was wrapped in plastic bundles and put in drums that contained powdered sodium hydroxide, which is the active ingredient in lye.
The cocaine _ valued at nearly $852 million, or $80,000 a pound _ was wrapped in plastic and topped with 6 inches of powder that turned out to be a 98 percent concentration of sodium hydroxide, an extremely caustic lye.
One leaking car contained pulp mill liquor, a byproduct of pulp mill operations; the other contained potassium hydroxide, a corrosive chemical used in electroplating and the manufacture of soap and varnish remover, officials said.
There they planned to neutralize it, pumping in air and then water to create ammonium hydroxide, which could be vacuumed into storage trucks, Schlottach said.
A dike collected most of the sodium hydroxide, a caustic substance used to clean drains, Bell said.
He said it revealed more instances of explosions with liquid sulfuric acid drain cleaners than with sodium hydroxide cleaners such as Red Devil Lye.
Firefighters used hoses to suck oil and sodium hydroxide from the ground.