I think your wash with KOH will be more biodegradable
as well. Put it on your garden.

--- bob allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> KOH dissolves much more readily, exothermically in
> fact.  If you assume 
> that the NaOH and KOH  you are using are 100% each
> (which they are not)  
> the ratio of KOH  to NaOH varies by their formula
> weight  KOH is 56 that 
> of NaOH is 40 therefore you would use 56/40 times as
> much KOH by weight.  
> 
> 
> Go Hoff wrote:
> 
> >There is a very impressive commercial processor
> being manufactured in Sweden
> >(www.carryon.se). Looking through their
> specifications I noticed that they
> >mix Kaliumhydroxide KOH instead of Natriumhydroxide
> NaOH with methanol to
> >make their methoxide.
> >
> >I asked them why and if I understood their comment
> it was because
> >kaliumhydroxide was gentler!
> >
> >If anyone on the list could help me gain insight
> into this I would be very
> >appreciative, mostly because the NaOH I am using is
> extreeeeemly difficult
> >to dissolve and I am hoping KOH would perhaps be
> easier. But then, maybe the
> >proportions would be different..or?
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