caustic soda used to be available in most chemist shops. Can't seem to get it these days - is it perhaps another nasty terrorist susbstance? Cynical? You bet.
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caustic soda - difficult to obtain
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The sheds stocked it last time I looked. B&Q had their own brand IIRC
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It's not banned, you're just looking in the wrong place.
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You can't use it for making explosives. Acids yes.
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Paranoid is the word. I'd stop reading the Daily Mail if I was you!
cheers
Jacob
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Does a terrorist get the shitty jobs?
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Also....
Home&Bargain Stores Chandlers Some Paint&Decorators shops. Poundland now and again.
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Bought some last week in B&Q. Plenty on the shelves.
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Wilkinsons sell it too.
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Good. I had though tried *three* chemists shops all of whom used to sell it. I just want clean the drain not rule the world with it. The head boss-woman chemist herself actually started this off by muttering something about "maybe the've taken it off the list because..." (I kid you not). Of course Mr Bond, "They" could have another list...
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You don't need chemist grade caustic soda to clean drains.
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Any farm/country supplies store will have it available in 5-25Kg quantities.
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Just bought a half-gallon plastic bottle of crystalline NaOH from Drews the ironmongers here in Reading. And a bottle of 97% H2SO4.
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Dropping that carrier bag could have been spectacular!
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Maybe that's why the guys in the shop stood back as I left :-)
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I'm a bit surprised that they would have these. What are the typical trade applications?
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Party on ...
One thing to be aware of is that NaOH is hygroscopic
leave it open to the air for too long and you end up with an evil slurry of the stuff
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Unblocking drains, bleaching wood..
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Or even _darkening_ wood.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember David in Normandy saying something like:
Not directly, but... The infamous two-stage biodiesel process involves using sulphuric acid and sodium methoxide. Some dope somewhere will use nitric acid instead and throw off nitro-glycerine as a by-product.