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Old 08-12-2008, 10:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
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You can make either potassium or sodium hydroxide with Slaked lime from the garden shop and either sodium or potassium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is precipitated. Slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) alone is not very soluble.
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