caustic soda

noun

: sodium hydroxide

Examples of caustic soda in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The caustic soda upgrade will allow the plant to treat its full capacity of 50 million gallons per day. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

The process enhances high-contrast laser etching and reduces caustic soda consumption in sulfur mercerizing. — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025

Rather than treating it as waste, Aepnus feeds it into a modular electrolyzer that, when powered, drives electrochemical reactions to split and rearrange the ions into the original reagents – caustic soda and sulfuric acid. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025

Mercury has been used in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, in cement production, as a coolant in nuclear reactors, in fungicides, reagents, embalming, batteries, preservatives, antiseptics, and cosmetics. — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1796, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for caustic soda

• amphipoda
• copepoda
• decapoda
• gastropoda
• isopoda
• nematoda
• coda
• oda
• toda
• ostracoda
• pagoda

Kids Definition

caustic soda

noun

: sodium hydroxide

Medical Definition

caustic soda

noun

: sodium hydroxide