Caustic soda

Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, is a white translucent flaky solid. It is a basic chemical raw material and is widely used in textile industries such as papermaking, synthetic detergents, soaps, viscose fibers, synthetic silk, and cotton fabrics. It is also widely used in pesticides, dyes, rubber, chemical industry, oil drilling, refining of petroleum grease, and refining of tar in the oil industry. It is also used in the defense industry, machinery industry, wood processing, metallurgical industry, pharmaceutical industry, and urban construction. It is also used in the manufacture of chemicals, paper, soaps and detergents, rayon and cellophane, processing bauxite to produce alumina, as well as textile finishing and water treatment.