The chemical reaction that killed the manager of a Buffalo Wings restaurant in Massachusetts last week is arguably the most fundamental of all chemical reactions: Neutralization – the combination of ...

Workers destroyed the agent using a neutralization technology that mixes it with sodium hydroxide and hot water. The resulting byproduct of this process is a caustic wastewater made up of water ...

Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, is one of the most ubiquitous chemicals in commerce, used as a base or neutralizing agent in everything from laboratory research to large-volume ...