Lye
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Lye is a caustic solution which is made from ashes and is used for glass, soap making, textile production and certain food preparations, for example: lutefisk, chinese preserved duck eggs also known as "hundred-year-old eggs" or century eggs, and table olives. Lye may also refer to:
- Soda lye, known as sodium hydroxide
- Potash lye, a less common name for potassium hydroxide
- Chamber lye, urine
[edit] Places
- Lye, West Midlands, a small town in England
- Lye, Indre, a commune of the Indre département in France
- Lye railway station, England; National Rail station code LYE.
- RAF Lyneham (IATA: LYE, ICAO: EGDL), a Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire, England
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