replying to Dhakala, The chemist wrote:
You are wrong. Chemically it may be SIMILAR but similar is NOT the same.
Different reactions and reactivities. While for some uses it might not matter,
for other uses everything about it matters. True lye IS the true NaOH. I'm a
chemist, I should know.

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