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JT45242

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9. White liquor is nasty stuff...

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2026, 07:55 PM

22 hrs ago

It is sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide. Both nasty and very dangerous when inhaled.

I thought it might be the sulfuric acid solutions but that comes later in the process to neutralize those bases.

Paper processing uses some extremely dangerous chemicals.

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