Could what you think is sugar sprinkled on the cookies actually be a poisonous lye?

你认为撒在饼干上的糖实际上是有毒的碱液吗？

That's what all the lye was for, wasn't it?

所以你才用碱水，对吧？

You mean like using lye to dissolve a human body?

你是说 用碱液溶解尸体吗？

Supposedly, this alters the chemical composition of the baking soda to make it perform more like lye.

据说，这会改变小苏打的化学成分，使其表现得更像碱液。

Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye.

他们为她所吸引，并崇拜她的得体的言语、她的漂亮身材以及她那像碱水里的起泡一样的尖酸幽默。

So they make a salt of benzoic acid by reacting it with sodium hydroxide — aka lye or caustic soda — to make sodium benzoate.

所以他们通过与氢氧化钠——也就是碱液或苛性钠——反应生成苯甲酸盐。

You may know it as lye, an extremely caustic substance that's used for everything from clearing clogged pipes to purifying drinking water.

您可能将其称为碱液，这是一种腐蚀性极强的物质， 可用于从清理堵塞的管道到净化饮用水等各种用途。

They tried soap and water, earth and a scrubbing brush, and lastly a pumice stone and lye, but they could not remove the crosses.

他们尝试了肥皂和水、泥土和刷子，最后是浮石和碱液，但他们无法去除十字架。

The wet clothes were heavy, and the soap had lye in it. Lye is a strong substance that cleaned the clothes well. But it hurt people's skin.

湿衣服很重，肥皂里有碱液。碱液是一种强力物质，能把衣服洗得很干净。但它会伤害人们的皮肤。

It will be a luxury to have a bath in a tub that doesn't make you feel as though you wanted to scrub it out with lye and carbolic.

在浴缸里洗个澡是一种奢侈， 它不会让你觉得你想用碱液和石炭酸擦洗它。