Balance out your portfolio with a dash of chlorine and caustic soda, a.k.a. lye.
You can watch real artisans blowing glass, making lye soap and carving chairs the old-fashioned way.
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In the latter case, the kernels are soaked in lye first (making hominy) then dried before grinding.
And if it's not regulated, do you want to be next door to somebody using lye and stuff?
First, you dig up bauxite which you then crush and boil in sodium hydroxide (lye, or caustic soda).
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One of the region's most famous offerings in this category is Lutefisk - aged, dried white fish soaked in lye (sodium hydroxide).
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"Hominy" can indicate most any dried field corn, but dried corn treated with lye or lime in a process known as nixtamalization is likewise called hominy.
The lye treatment removes the corn bran and also changes the chemistry of the corn making its niacin (one of the B vitamins) more digestible.
The kernel also can be soaked in lye (wood ashes, traditionally) to make hominy, but this process takes several days, so it wasn't always an option.
The demand for chlorine and lye is expected to grow 2% to 3% per year for the rest of the decade, says Adams, the chemicals market analyst.
These use an electrical process to transform salt and water into chlorine and caustic soda (a.k.a. lye), which are the building blocks of everything from plastics to soap.
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