Article: Response to lye-making advice.

COUNTRYSIDE: I was glad to receive the May/June issue at the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair at the expo in Madison. The response to the question on making lye has some potentially dangerous errors in its advice. Commercial strengths of lye (sodium hydroxide) and potassium hydroxide are normally shipped in polyethylene plastic containers in its liquid form. Dry flake lye is shipped in steel drums. Contrary to your advice, plastic barrels and buckets and trash cans would be the best and possibly cheapest containers to use/recycle for ...

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