This activity makes a solution of curium hydroxide glow strongly enough to take its own photograph.
Or that he could produce one ounce of gold from 16 ounces of potassium hydroxide, rock flint and ferric oxide.
They turned it over to Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum, who discovered that it had the same chemistry sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide .
Haz-mat situation at Cary shopping center Crews responded to the Town and Country Hardware in the 2400 block of SW Cary Parkway for a sodium hydroxide solution spill.
July 10, 2013 - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville
Train with hazardous materials derails in Ore. LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) -- A small amount of a corrosive chemical was released early Wednesday when a Union Pacific freight train derailed in Eastern Oregon. The railroad said it was a chemical mixture, and the primary ingredient was sodium hydroxide, an industrial chemical known as lye. The State Police said there was "no significant hazardous material leak." A state trooper said it was described ...
July 10, 2013 - KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland