I think your right suss. But just a reminder that plastics, waxes and glues are the obstacle to yield.
Heating and mixing these doesn't prove sufficient, they really do hold on.
With amonia gas and NP's, that's not the answer because what are you gonna gas? a powder on the bottom?
here's some NaOH properties.
Properties: Fused solid with crystalline fracture. Rapidly absorbs carbon dioxide and water from the air. Very corrosive (caustic) to animal and vegetable tissue and to aluminum metal in the presence of moisture. Sold as lumps, sticks, pellets, chips, etc. When kept in tight containers, the usual grades contain 97-98% NaOH. mp 318degrees . d 25 2.13 . One gram dissolves in 0.9 ml water, 0.3 ml boiling water, 7.2 ml abs alcohol, 4.2 ml methanol, also sol in glycerol. Gener ates considerable heat while dissolving, or when the soln is mixed with an acid. Volumetric NaOH solns used in the laboratory must be protected from air to avoid formation of carbon ate. Concentrated NaOH solns dissolve practically no sodium carbonate. The pH of a 0.05% w/w soln approximately12, of a 0.5% soln approximately13, of a 5% soln approximately14. Density, boiling and freezing pt data for (w/w) water solns. d 4 15 : 5% 1.056 , 10% 1.111 , 20% 1.222 , 30% 1.333 , 40% 1.434 , 50% 1.530 . bp: 5% 102degrees , 10% 105degrees , 20% 110degrees , 30% 115degrees , 40% 125degrees , 50% 140degrees . fp: 5% minus4degrees, 10% minus10degrees, 20% minus26degrees, 30% 1degrees, 40% 15degrees, 50% 12degrees. LD orally in rabbits: 500 mg/kg (10% soln) (Fazekas)
Here's KOH:
Properties: White or slightly yellow lumps, rods, pellets. Very caustic to tissue. Rapidly absorbs moisture and CO 2 from the air and deliquesces. mp about 360degrees ; mp 380degrees when anhydr . Sol in 0.9 part water, about 0.6 part boiling water, 3 parts alcohol, 2.5 parts glycerol. When dissolved in water or alcohol or when the soln is treated with an acid, much heat is gener ated. Keep tightly closed and do not handle with bare hands. A 0.1 M aq soln has a pH of 13.5. LD 50 orally in rats: 1.23 g/kg (Smyth) .
NH3 properties:
Properties: Colorless gas; very pungent odor (characteristic of drying urine). Lower limit of human perception: 0.04 g/cubic meter or 53 ppm. One liter of the gas weighs 0.7714 g. d 0.5967 (air = 1) . mp minus77.7degrees . bp 760 minus33.35degrees . Densities of liq NH 3 (temp; press.): 0.6818 (minus33.35degrees; 1 atm); 0.6585 (minus15degrees; 2.332 atm); 0.6386 (0degrees; 4.238 atm); 0.6175 (15degrees; 7.188 atm); 0.5875 (35degrees; 13.321 atm) . Critical temp 132.4degrees; critical press. 111.5 atm. Heat capacity (25degrees) 8.38 cal/mole/deg. Mixtures of ammonia and air will explode when ignited under favorable conditions: Angew. Chem. 43, 302 (1930), but ammonia is generally regarded as nonflammable. Cor rosive, alkaline gas. pH of 1.0 N aq soln 11.6; of 0.1 N aq soln 11.1; of 0.01 N aq soln 10.6. Water at 0degrees holds 47%, at 15degrees 38%, at 20degrees 34%, at 25degrees 31%, at 30degrees 28%, at 50degrees 18%. d 4 20 (aq solns): 0.9939 (1%); 0.9811 (4%); 0.9651 (8%); 0.9362 (16%); 0.9229 (20%); 0.9101 (24%); 0.8980 (28%) . fp (aq solns): minus2.9degrees (4%); minus8.1degrees (8%); minus23.1degrees (16%); minus34.9degrees (20%); minus44.5degrees (24%); minus69.2degrees (28%). Solution of NH 3 in water is exothermic. 95% alcohol at 20degrees holds 15%, at 30degrees 11%. Abs ethanol at 0degrees 20%, at 25degrees 10%. Methanol at 25degrees 16%. It is also sol in chloroform and ether. Liquid ammo nia produces low temps by its own evaporation. Heat of vaporization: 5.581 kcal/mole. It is a good solvent for many elements and compds. Usually marketed in liquefied form in steel cylinders or as ammonia water (aqua ammo nia, ammonium hydroxide) in drums and bottles.