How to make lye(sodium hydroxide)

This is a tutorial to make lye(sodium hydroxide)and no the potassium hydroxide. Its not the old fashioned hillbilly way.Tiredproduction
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[adesokmoa]

what advantage of sodium hydroxide?....can we make rocket fuel?

[xXKentoXx]

@adesokmoa it's used mostly for making soap and diesel check out wiki and other sites for more uses.and you could always use it to burn yourself like in fight club

[jody4403363881]

Dude, it kills me how many people are busting your balls about making lye this way. Folks, this is how lye is made industrially. Although, they do tend to seperate the electrodes. I forget if it is the anode or the cathode that has to be seperated by a permeable membrane to keep the chlorine out. You can use any old glassware frit for this. Maybe even the guts from a britta filter. This makes very pure grade NaOH (Or other hydroxides depending on the starting salt.)

[xXKentoXx]

@jody4403363881

thanks for this comment dude

btw

you could use asbestos and other membranes too.you could get them from your attic if your house is old enough.

[URAconstructor]

@xXKentoXx please don't use asbestos for your own sake, and those who may be around you. It's more dangerous than most people think.

[xXKentoXx]

@URAconstructor that was just an example.

[xXKentoXx]

@tonydecoste well what do you expect from me? Im a fucking JAP!

[seandizzy]

Thanks man I found other methods like a wooden barrel rainwater some hole ect but this my friend is simple chemistry but i didnt think of electrolysis .I usual use that to make rust 

[ssssaintmarcus]

@adesokmoa or u can use it to make drugs like Meth and to extract a few others ;)

[BoredomIdeas]

No demonstration?

[7eyesdown]

So why charcoal I am not a chemist so I wouldn't know but why not just use metal rods and put the wire on those would that work?

[ScootSkateBmxer]

For all those worried about the chlorine gas, just get a bigger surface container and over the wire that produces chlorine put an upside beaker over it to collect the gas. More sodium hydroxide as well :)

[burn19ballz]

@nindaff i was just being stupid i wasn't serious,of course you would need non-dilluted to dissolve the bones.

[nindaff]

@burn19ballz youd want non-dilluted hcl for that tard

[Simlatio]

@coldsn I agree, it is often all too easy to form chlorates using an anode such as graphite that has a low overpotential for chlorine and hypochlorite and a high overpotential for oxygen.

[burn19ballz]

yay! now i can dissolve that body i have in my basement >8 3

[nickalisse1]

@xXKentoXx Ha! HA! HA! Good one! Next time, he or she can keep his, her unproductives comments for him, hers