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30620-M

Sodium hydroxide

puriss. p.a., ACS reagent, reag. Ph. Eur., K ≤0.02%, ≥98%, pellets

Synonym(s):

‘Caustic soda’

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Linear Formula:
NaOH
CAS Number:
1310-73-2
Molecular Weight:
40.00
NACRES:
NA.21
PubChem Substance ID:
329753547
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
EC Number:
215-185-5
MDL number:
MFCD00003548
Assay:
≥98%
Form:
pellets

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InChI key

HEMHJVSKTPXQMS-UHFFFAOYSA-M

InChI

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

SMILES string

[OH-].[Na+]

grade

ACS reagent, puriss. p.a.

agency

reag. Ph. Eur.

vapor density

>1 (vs air)

vapor pressure

<18 mmHg ( 20 °C), 3 mmHg ( 37 °C)

assay

≥98%

form

pellets

technique(s)

titration: suitable

impurities

≤0.0003% total nitrogen (N), ≤0.002% heavy metals (as Ag), ≤1.0% Na2CO3, ≤5 ppm heavy metals (as Pb)

mp

318 °C (lit.)

solubility

water: soluble 1260 g/L at 20 °C

density

2.13 g/cm3

anion traces

chloride (Cl-): ≤10 ppm, phosphate (PO43-): ≤0.0005%, silicate (as SiO2): ≤0.001%, sulfate (SO42-): ≤30 ppm

cation traces

Al: ≤0.0005%, As: ≤0.0001%, Ca: ≤0.0005%, Cu: ≤0.0005%, Fe: ≤5 ppm, Hg: ≤0.05 ppm, K: ≤0.02%, Mg: ≤0.0005%, Ni: ≤0.0005%, Pb: ≤0.0002%, Zn: ≤0.0005%

Quality Level

100

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General description

Sodium hydroxide is an inorganic base. It participates in the oxidation of glycerol, catalyzed by Au/charcoal or Au/graphite. It also participates in solvent-free aldol condensation reaction.

Application

Sodium hydroxide may be employed for determination of specific surface area of colloidal silica, via titration. It may be employed for direct oxidation of sodium borohydride, which was investigated by cyclic and linear voltammetry, chronoamperometry and chronopotentiometry. It may be used to compose citrate buffer and borate buffers.
It may be used in the synthesis of following compounds:
  • alkylaryl amidosulfobetaines
  • (3 -[4-teroctylphenoxyethoxyethoxyethyl] dimethylammonio propane sulfonate (XOSB)
  • trisulfobetaines (TriSBn)

pictograms

Corrosion
GHS05

signalword

Danger

hcodes

H290,H314

Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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M A Roberts et al.
Analytical chemistry, 69(11), 2035-2042 (1997-06-01)
This report describes a UV laser photoablation method for the production of miniaturized liquid-handling systems on polymer substrate chips. The fabrication of fluid channel and reservoir networks is accomplished by firing 200 mJ pulses from an UV excimer laser at
Silvio Carrettin et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (7)(7), 696-697 (2002-07-18)
Glycerol is oxidised to glyceric acid with 100% selectivity using either 1% Au/charcoal or 1% Au/graphite catalyst under mild reaction conditions (60 degrees C, 3 h, water as solvent).
M Chevallet et al.
Electrophoresis, 19(11), 1901-1909 (1998-09-18)
Severe quantitative loss of protein is often observed in high-resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis of membrane proteins, while the resolution is usually not affected. To improve the solubility of proteins in this technique, we tested denaturing cocktails containing various detergents and chaotropes.

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