Dexterity

Have you done a double displacment before. This seems pretty straight forward.

Maybe I should use heat. THIS is the way to make it without heat. The famous chemist and physican Paracelsus used his own recipe for alkahest was made of caustic lime, alcohol, and carbonate of potash. The lime and potassium carbonate would turn into potassium hydroxcide.

So what is the remedy for this? Should I boil the milk of lime? Lime water is clear. Milk of lime is a white solution that will clear if allowed to settle.

I know I need to use a 1:1 molar amount. BUT calcium hydroxcide is BARELY soluble in water, so instead of using lime water...will milk of lime work? Like I make a milk of lime slurry with 1 mole calcium hydroxcide THEN add one mole of sodium or potassium carbonate...and stir for a while and wait for the calcium carbonate to drop out... Will this work and produce sodium hydroxcide, which is souble in water. Then I just decant or filter out the precipitation?