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词汇 lye
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Definition of lye in English:

lye

noun lʌɪlaɪ
mass noun
  • A strongly alkaline solution, especially of potassium hydroxide, used for washing or cleansing.

    碱液(尤指氢氧化钾,用作洗涤剂)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One member created an alternative cement for the concrete floor of our sauna, using fly ash (from coal burning plants, not waste dumps!), citric acid, lye, and borax.
    • Most conventional whitening toothpastes use sodium or potassium hydroxides, also known as lye, which is considered a poison by the Food and Drug Administration.
    • In oven cleaners, lye and sodium hydroxide can burn skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract.
    • Other household items carried by the stores on wheels included washing powder, liniments, salve, and lye used for making soap.
    • For example, sodium oxide dissolved in water yields sodium hydroxide, or lye.
    • One of the most popular dishes is lutefisk, stockfish softened in a solution of lye.
    • It's important to avoid conventional oven cleaners; they contain lye and ammonia, which can damage your respiratory tract if inhaled.
    • Sodium hydroxide, NaOH, also known as lye and caustic soda, is one of the most important of all industrial chemicals.
    • The catalyst is usually a base, either lye (which is NaOH) or potassium hydroxide.
    • I told him about the time that Mother almost burned herself with lye from the soap we were making.
    • From the age of 15 or so, I would have my hair straightened with such hair-loving products as lye and perm solution.
    • Chemistry fans take note: lye is also called caustic soda and sodium hydroxide, but most people just call it lye.
    • Because soap is made primarily from a caustic blend of boiled animal fat, lye and soda, it is highly alkaline.
    • Make soap using lye (from hardwood ash) and animal fat.
    • When you mix ten parts oil with one part of methanol and a pinch of lye (the catalyst), the mixture settles out into about ten parts biodiesel and one part glycerine.
    • Technically detergents are called ‘Synthetic Detergents’ as they are not made from fats and lye from which soap is made.
    • To make the Biodiesel, we heated the oil, then mixed in a measured solution of methanol and lye.
    • If more alkalinity was needed, then borax, sodium metaborate, sodium carbonate, or even lye were used.
    • I set to work scrubbing on my green hair with the strongest lye soap, hoping for positive results.
    • One involves a chemical reaction: Mix the oil with methanol and lye, and you get a stable, vegetable-based fuel called biodiesel.

Origin

Old English lēag, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch loog, German Lauge, also to lather.

Rhymes

ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai

Definition of lye in US English:

lye

nounlaɪ
  • A strongly alkaline solution, especially of potassium hydroxide, used for washing or cleansing.

    碱液(尤指氢氧化钾,用作洗涤剂)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One member created an alternative cement for the concrete floor of our sauna, using fly ash (from coal burning plants, not waste dumps!), citric acid, lye, and borax.
    • When you mix ten parts oil with one part of methanol and a pinch of lye (the catalyst), the mixture settles out into about ten parts biodiesel and one part glycerine.
    • I told him about the time that Mother almost burned herself with lye from the soap we were making.
    • If more alkalinity was needed, then borax, sodium metaborate, sodium carbonate, or even lye were used.
    • Because soap is made primarily from a caustic blend of boiled animal fat, lye and soda, it is highly alkaline.
    • Other household items carried by the stores on wheels included washing powder, liniments, salve, and lye used for making soap.
    • In oven cleaners, lye and sodium hydroxide can burn skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract.
    • One of the most popular dishes is lutefisk, stockfish softened in a solution of lye.
    • To make the Biodiesel, we heated the oil, then mixed in a measured solution of methanol and lye.
    • From the age of 15 or so, I would have my hair straightened with such hair-loving products as lye and perm solution.
    • The catalyst is usually a base, either lye (which is NaOH) or potassium hydroxide.
    • It's important to avoid conventional oven cleaners; they contain lye and ammonia, which can damage your respiratory tract if inhaled.
    • Technically detergents are called ‘Synthetic Detergents’ as they are not made from fats and lye from which soap is made.
    • Most conventional whitening toothpastes use sodium or potassium hydroxides, also known as lye, which is considered a poison by the Food and Drug Administration.
    • I set to work scrubbing on my green hair with the strongest lye soap, hoping for positive results.
    • Make soap using lye (from hardwood ash) and animal fat.
    • One involves a chemical reaction: Mix the oil with methanol and lye, and you get a stable, vegetable-based fuel called biodiesel.
    • For example, sodium oxide dissolved in water yields sodium hydroxide, or lye.
    • Sodium hydroxide, NaOH, also known as lye and caustic soda, is one of the most important of all industrial chemicals.
    • Chemistry fans take note: lye is also called caustic soda and sodium hydroxide, but most people just call it lye.

Origin

Old English lēag, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch loog, German Lauge, also to lather.

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