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If production were increased significantly, I'd want to know what happens to the waste product, which is most likely chlorine.


See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_process

The waste is Ammonium chloride which is used as fertilizer, or Calcium chloride which has a wide variety of uses.

They can both also be dumped in the ocean (it doesn't hurt the ocean).


That process is for producing sodium carbonate, not sodium hydroxide.


See page 3 here: http://www.prevor.com/images/docs/en/doc_20soude_20version_2...

But mainly I was answering the question about the waste chlorine, not about the process of making sodium hydroxide.




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