Talk:Lye

message: This page was marked for clean-up per MoS:DAB, and deleted the following (IMO non-disambig) information:
Lye is also an ingredient in the synthetic drug, methamphetamine.
-- it's not an ingredient, just used as a base to manipulate pH. Or so I've heard. ;-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.139.16 (talk) 15:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I'm no chemical expert, but if the article states that it's NaOH, shouldn't it be merged with NaOH instead? Opinion from a chemist please. Somecrowd (talk) 04:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: (Not a chemist), Wikipedia doesn't have seperate articles for Water and H2O... Pokeman (talk) 09:16, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NaOH?

message: Lye is a generic word describing highly basic ("caustic" = pH around 14) solutions which are usually based on sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide in water (typical concentration 30 to 50%). "Solid" Lye is nonsense.
I would recommend to keep this page pretty short and giving links (as it is now) to caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), potassium hydroxide (potash), where production processes should be described.Frade 14:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-merge OK but the whole page should be simplified

message: I believe that use of the word lye is now confined to the USA.  In the UK, the word is regarded as archaic and the terms sodium hydroxide or caustic soda are used instead.  Biscuittin (talk) 19:36, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not quite.  In the UK, it is used in an archaic or traditional *context*, and as such therefore refers mainly to KOH rather than NaOH.  If you went to a tannery in the UK, for example, and started talking about lye, they would all know what you are talking about.  As frankly would any well-read person.   This article is badly structured though: it needs to refer back to the articles on the specific chemicals themselves, and imo keep this article for those historical/traditional functions (which is something the single chemical articles tend to ignore) Tobermory (talk) 13:18, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I think that it is worth adding a note to the article about the regional usage of the word. I'm a native English speaker in England and had never heard the word until recently. I have heard it in an American film and on a bottle of drain cleaner imported from the USA, I came here to find out what it was due to the word being alien to me. 79.78.60.213 (talk) 79.78.60.213 (talk) 15:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK/US usage 

message: Under "See Also", shouldn't KOH be "Caustic Potash" rather than "Potash", which is K2C03?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.172.192 (talk) 02:40, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potash? 

message: Is there a reason fight club is listed in the "See Also" section?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Resisty (talk • contribs) 23:18, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In Memento, instant film is a major theme. In Sleepless in Seattle, radio shows are a major theme. In Die Hard II, air traffic control is a major theme... need I go on? None of the latter articles should have the former in their See also seactions. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 14:59, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fight Club? 

message: Any good reason why this is in :Category:Hobbies?  Sure, Lye can be used in one hobby, soap-making, but it's damn near everything can be hobby-related, by that criterion.  It's not as though lye itself is a hobby. TJRC (talk) 22:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Silence, so I removed. TJRC (talk) 18:23, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hobbies"? 

message: I removed a large section of text that was directly copied from this page, one of this page's references. This really damages the article, so it would be ideal if this text could be rewritten to avoid copyright violation. Alternately, someone could contact the copyright holder and ask for permission to use the text on this page. For more information, see wp:cv. Indeterminate (talk) 02:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Update - it might have been added by the copyright holder. The content was added in this edit by User:CertifiedLye. I'll email the copyright holder to check that it was donated properly. Reverted in good faith. Indeterminate (talk) 02:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: Is it appropriate to mention lye water in this article ? There's currently no separate Wiki article on it. It's basically a simple solution of lye in water, used in some types of Asian and African cooking (but NOT meant for drinking). It's sold commerically in many stores, bottled and labelled very similar to drinking water, and there have been several cases of people getting severe throat burns from accidentally drinking it. Logicman1966 (talk) 08:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lye Water 

message: I tried to add the Dutch equivalentof the page, but I got an error: "Site link nlwiki:Natronloog already used by item Q5369270". I do not know what this error means, but I wondered if someone who does could link the Dutch page to this one (the Dutch page links to the English page perfectly).
Previous comment added by Special:Contributions/145.97.213.155 15:10, 15 May 2013‎ (UTC) 
:The Dutch page refers to NaOH solution, not lyes (or their solutions) in general. Q5369270 refers to this article and its versions across various Wikipedias as recorded in Wikidata (there is no equivalent WP-en article). An explanation: :nl:Natronloog is equivalent to :de:Natronlauge, while :en:lye is equivalent to :de:Alkalische Lösung. Your attempt to link the Dutch and English articles would imply that the two German articles are equivalent. All this cannot be exactly true, so it spits out an error. Tomásdearg92 (talk) 02:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch page (Natronloog) 

message: It would help the article a bit, I think, to have a picture of lye sold for food use, or of a home application of lye.  Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:19, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  food use 

message: the german page is "natronlauge" (NaOH, potassium hydroxide) but should be the "Lauge" counterpart. 
this would be "chemically" and from a linguisitc point of you be closer to the german use of "lye" - "Lauge". 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkalische_L%C3%B6sung
It would help the article a bit, I think, to have a picture of lye sold for food use, or of a home application of lye.  Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:19, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  German page 

message: two full articles about the same substance Ijon (talk) 07:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Sodium hydroxide]] 

message: Just discovered a note in The Darkroom Cookbook mentioning the photochemical uses of Sodium Hydroxide.  Red Devil Lye is specifically mentioned.  Uses listed as a high-energy accelerator or alkali sometimes used to activate low-energy developing agents.  Used with borax to make Balanced Alkali (Kodalk).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peoplemerge (talk • contribs) 18:57, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in photography 

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message: In the last paragraph of "Hazardous reactions" there is the line "lye may also react with —producing hydrogen gas." This doesn't make any sense, any idea what it's supposed to say? vghfr, harbinger of chaos 21:39, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line doesn't make sense