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            apparently (contrary to what I figured), conc. lye does react with glass, forming some complex of sodium-silicate; but this takes years of storage to do any serious harm to the structural integrity of the container. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck 
   
         
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            NaOH will also etch glass. 
         
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            I actually was wondering about this myself recently.
  What concerned my more is using mason jars for STB and the metal reacting with the lye/water soln. 
         
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            mydriasis wrote:I actually was wondering about this myself recently.
  What concerned my more is using mason jars for STB and the metal reacting with the lye/water soln.  Especially considering the lids are made of aluminum. "Within your heart is a lotus, and within this lotus is a diamond. This diamond is the source of creation, and in all the creation, there is only one lotus." 
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            mumbles wrote:NaOH will also etch glass.  that's what I meant by reacting with glass, causing harm to the structural integrity but it won't etch it nearly as quickly as CsOH or HF, it takes a while. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck 
   
         
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            I doubt pyrex or other lab glass will react significantly with NaOH solution shoe
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            benzyme wrote:mumbles wrote:NaOH will also etch glass.  that's what I meant by reacting with glass, causing harm to the structural integrity but it won't etch it nearly as quickly as CsOH or HF, it takes a while.  I had a very similar conversation a couple of days ago. I was saying to my friend that he needs to oil his rifle so it doesn't oxidise, and he said: "yeah, this and also for not getting rusty"! Need to calculate between salts and freebases?  Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH?  Click here!  
         
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            Infundibulum wrote: I had a very similar conversation a couple of days ago. I was saying to my friend that he needs to oil his rifle so it doesn't oxidise, and he said: "yeah, this and also for not getting rusty"!
 
 
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            Ya gotta be careful with NAOH and glass. SWIM has personally had a jar crack on him during the mixing process of water + NAOH. Whether it was the NAOH itself or the heat generated from it is uncertain. Talk about a wild purple mess. From that point on, SWIM always mixes his NAOH and water in a plastic jug and then transfers it to glass once it's thoroughly mixed and cooled down. ...
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            swim's always done it in a borosilicate beaker, at home, and in the lab.standard protocol  the only plastic he puts it in is the waste carboys. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck 
   
         
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            Infundibulum wrote:benzyme wrote:mumbles wrote:NaOH will also etch glass.  that's what I meant by reacting with glass, causing harm to the structural integrity but it won't etch it nearly as quickly as CsOH or HF, it takes a while.  I had a very similar conversation a couple of days ago. I was saying to my friend that he needs to oil his rifle so it doesn't oxidise, and he said: "yeah, this and also for not getting rusty"!  LOL    Benzyme what is the machine in your avatar? As a kemist I never met ILPT in physical form and never talk to him. He share his wisdom, trough my mind, telepathicly only. Please don`t prosecute me, for his possible illegal activities. He is bonkers about chemistry and doesn`t even exist in this  primitive reality !!!
   
         
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            turbomolecular pump"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck 
   
         
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             :O charming As a kemist I never met ILPT in physical form and never talk to him. He share his wisdom, trough my mind, telepathicly only. Please don`t prosecute me, for his possible illegal activities. He is bonkers about chemistry and doesn`t even exist in this  primitive reality !!!
   
         
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            I investigated this matter, because I wanted numbers. If in doubt, one want: Borosilicate glass, Akali resistance class ISO 695-A2 or A1 Quote:However, at ambient temperatures caustic solutions up to 30% concentration can be handled by borosilicate glass without difficulty. [..]  Alkali attack on borosilicate glass 3.3 as a function of temperature. It can be seen from the corrosion curves in fig. 2 that the attack on the glass surface initially increases as the concentration of the caustic solution increases but after exceeding a maximum it assumes a virtually constant value. Rising temperatures increase the corrosion,  while at low temperatures the reaction speed is so low that reduction of the wall thickness is hardly detectable over a number of years.http://www.scientificgla...f_Borosilicate_glass.pdf   
         
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