02-09-2021, 08:33 PM
freeradical wrote:
Sodium hydroxide is not used to control the "acidity" of water. It is used to remediate the water by causing cations to precipitate out of the water in the form of metal hydroxides. I find it really surprising that Reuters can't even get a basic fact like this correct.
In this day where you literally just have to lift up your phone and type in a search, it absolutely floors me how many people have perfected their "authoritative voice" and offer up ridiculous "facts" off the top of their head. Dude, just look it up! Don't make someone be the weener who sits on their phone and factchecks at the dinner table. So I guess it doesn't surprise me, but I don't understand it.