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Purifying Lye? Options
 
Trips
#1 Posted : 6/5/2009 4:08:02 PM
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Is it possible to clean hardware store brand lye? When I was younger and dumber I had a friend who would use straight hardware store lye to convert his GBL, but retrospectively, this seems like a very very very very very very bad idea, as ALL contaminants of the Lye are in the final product (ewwww.. Haha)

SWIM was just wondering if there was a way to clean it...
 

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#2 Posted : 6/5/2009 4:08:43 PM
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He would buy food grade... but he has like 4 kilos of lye with no purpose now that he's adopted the limonene tek!
 
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#3 Posted : 6/5/2009 4:38:05 PM

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One can clean it a bit via crystalization from water but it is hassle and dangerous.
it will loose some of it`s power too as NaOH react with CO2 creating sodium carbonate
use it for cleaning pipes and buy clean lye for swim`s experiments

it`s too dangerous nothin like crystalizing sodium chloride or carbonate
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