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S5881

Sodium hydroxide

reagent grade, ≥98%, pellets (anhydrous)

Synonym(s):

‘Caustic soda’

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Linear Formula:
NaOH
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
40.00
NACRES:
NA.21
PubChem Substance ID:
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
EC Number:
215-185-5
MDL number:

Product Name

Sodium hydroxide, reagent grade, ≥98%, pellets (anhydrous)

InChI key

HEMHJVSKTPXQMS-UHFFFAOYSA-M

InChI

1S/Na.H2O/h;1H2/q+1;/p-1

SMILES string

[OH-].[Na+]

grade

reagent grade

agency

suitable for EPA 1621
suitable for SM 4500 - NH3

vapor density

>1 (vs air)

vapor pressure

<18 mmHg ( 20 °C)
3 mmHg ( 37 °C)

assay

≥98%

form

pellets (anhydrous)

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

≤1.0% sodium carbonate

Quality Level

pH

(ca.> 14 at 100 g/l at 20 °C)

mp

318 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble 1260 g/L at 20 °C

density

2.13 g/cm3 at 20 °C

application(s)

PFAS testing

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Application

  • Sodium hydroxide has been used in the staining procedure of cells.
  • It has been used in the procedure of decellularizing human amniotic membrane for cell culture.
  • It has been used for chemical inactivation of fluorophores in immunostained cells.

Packaging

Bulk packages

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Corrosion

signalword

Danger

hcodes

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Met. Corr. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A

Storage Class

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable


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Jia-Ren Lin et al.
Nature communications, 6, 8390-8390 (2015-09-25)
Single-cell analysis reveals aspects of cellular physiology not evident from population-based studies, particularly in the case of highly multiplexed methods such as mass cytometry (CyTOF) able to correlate the levels of multiple signalling, differentiation and cell fate markers. Immunofluorescence (IF)
BDNF Pretreatment of Human Embryonic-Derived Neural Stem Cells Improves Cell Survival and Functional Recovery After Transplantation in Hypoxic-Ischemic Stroke.
Rosenblum S et al.
Cell Transplantation, 24, 2449-2449 (2015)
A simple alkaline method for decellularizing human amniotic membrane for cell culture.
Saghizadeh M et al.
PLoS ONE, 8, e79632-e79632 (2013)
Richard J Travers et al.
Blood, 124(22), 3183-3190 (2014-09-10)
Polyphosphate (polyP) is secreted by activated platelets and has been shown to contribute to thrombosis, suggesting that it could be a novel antithrombotic target. Previously reported polyP inhibitors based on polycationic substances, such as polyethylenimine, polyamidoamine dendrimers, and polymyxin B
Horacio Cardenas et al.
Epigenetics, 9(11), 1461-1472 (2014-12-04)
A key step in the process of metastasis is the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We hypothesized that epigenetic mechanisms play a key role in EMT and to test this hypothesis we analyzed global and gene-specific changes in DNA methylation during TGF-β-induced

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