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As an experienced soap maker in real life, I had one of my students nearly **do** just this. Fortunately, I stopped him in time before he could pour the water into the lye container. And to demonstrate my example. I took a tiny teaspoon of lye, put it in a large metal container, then, using a reaching stick so that we could keep back, poured a small cup of water on top of it. The hot jetting water, since we were standing back no one got splashed, proved my point a lot more effectively than my scolding. Lye IN the water, not water over the lye.
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In other words, you made them _witness_ the explosive exothermic reaction. From a safe distance. Given how lye reacts with liquids... I think I was safe in theorising that it burns as it eats you when you get splashed.
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Well, sorta. The lye doesn't react *that* quickly with your skin. So getting it on your skin isn't going to have it dig in that fast. And, btw, adding more WATER to it, if you have lye on your skin is a *major* no-no unless it's water filled with soap. Otherwise, you want to use liquid soap first on yourself as fast as possible, and then use the water. Oddly enough, the liquid soap, most of them, neutralize it quite well. But the nasty burns from the scalding water? Yeah you got it 100% correct.
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