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Caustic Soda

Caustic Soda - Caustic Soda or Sodium Hydroxide ( NaOH ) is surely being the base which is given as an example for the very first time when we started learning about the bases. Although its formula and name seems to be quite simple but it is one of the strongest bases whose pH is situated at the rightmost corner of the pH scale i.e., 14 (standard value). Being so basic in nature, it shows several vigorous reactions with alkali metals, acids (mostly situated towards the left of the pH value of lemon juice), etc. So it's appreciating properties brought it in the chemical industries as a most commonly used base which has a variety of uses in the chemical-based production industries. Caustic Soda Uses - Caustic soda is used for several purposes like it is used in paper industry, soaps and detergents industry, several sodium based salt production uses are also there. Apart from this, Caustic soda is also used for pH regulation as well as in a special ki

Table Salt Vs Kosher Salt

Although there are several varieties of spices which we use to make the dishes tasty, color blossom, and several other ingredients are used to garnish them and make them look delicious. Whenever you prepare a dish, there might be some ingredient which is not available right next to you, so you just try to use some sort of substitute, keeping assured one thing that the final dish would not be compromised in taste at all! But how would it taste, if salt is not present in them? Exactly! Your weird expression upon imagining such thing reveals that how important salt is for such delicious dishes.  It means one thing is very clear that although you can compromise with other ingredients, but compromising with salt is something that is not approved by any single being in this whole world. Being so important ingredient, an estimation says that around 30 Million Metric Tonnes of edible salt are produced worldwide annually ! Although there are around 10-12 edible salts,