Life in the Lab: You know your workplace is cold when...

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..you find yourself using the freshly-made bottle of NaOH solution as a handwarmer.

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I read that as sodium hydroxide. A little bell went off in my head and I looked it up. And yes, it was what I thought. Considered Mg + 2H2O → Mg(OH)2 + H2? Might not be so good with the flammable gas release, though.