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Gum Rosin is an ingredient in printing inks, photocopying and laser printing paper, varnishes, adhesives (glues), soap, paper sizing, soda, soldering fluxes, and sealing wax. Rosin can be used as a glazing agent in medicines and chewing gum.

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• Mainly used in plywood and pyrotechnics.

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• Used in plywood industry
• Laminates and preparation of melamin formaldehyde resin.

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• Used Mainly In Pet Resin And Unsaturated Polyester Resin Manufacturing.

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Titanium Dioxide Anatase is the most widely used white pigment because of its brightness and very high refractive index, in which it is surpassed only by a few other materials. Approximately 4.6 million tons of pigmentary tio2 are used annually worldwide, and this number is expected to increase as utilization continues to rise.

• When deposited as a thin film, its refractive index and colour make it an excellent reflective optical coating for dielectric mirrors and some gemstones like "mystic fire topaz". Tio2 is also an effective opacifier in powder form, where it is employed as a pigment to provide whiteness and opacity to products such as paints, coatings, plastics, papers, inks, foods, medicines (i.E. Pills and tablets) as well as most toothpastes. In paint, it is often referred to offhandedly as "the perfect white", "the whitest white", or other similar terms. Opacity is improved by optimal sizing of the titanium dioxide particles. Some grades of titanium based pigments as used in sparkly paints, plastics, finishes and pearlescent cosmetics are man-made pigments whose particles have two or more layers of various oxides – often titanium dioxide, iron oxide or alumina – in order to have glittering, iridescent and or pearlescent effects similar to crushed mica or guanine-based products. In addition to these effects a limited colour change is possible in certain formulations depending on how and at which angle the finished product is illuminated and the thickness of the oxide layer in the pigment particle; one or more colours appear by reflection while the other tones appear due to interference of the transparent titanium dioxide layers.
• In some products, the layer of titanium dioxide is grown in conjunction with iron oxide by calcination of titanium salts (sulfates, chlorates) around 800 °c. 
• Or other industrial deposition methods such as chemical vapour deposition on substrates such as mica platelets or even silicon dioxidecrystal platelets of no more than 50 µm in diameter.
• The iridescent effect in these titanium oxide particles (which are only partly natural) is unlike the opaque effect obtained with usual ground titanium oxide pigment obtained by mining, in which case only a certain diameter of the particle is considered and the effect is due only to scattering.

 

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Precipitated Calcium Carbonate PowderThe main use of Calcium Carbonate Precipitated is in the construction industry, either as a building material or limestone aggregate for road building or as an ingredient of cement or as the starting material for the preparation of builder's lime by burning in a kiln. However, because of weathering mainly caused by acid rain.

• Calcium carbonate (in limestone form) is no longer used for building purposes on its own, but only as a raw/primary substance for building materials. Calcium carbonate is also used in the purification of iron from iron ore in a blast furnace. The carbonate is calcined in situ to give calcium oxide, which forms a slag with various impurities present, and separates from the purified iron. In the oil industry, calcium carbonate is added to drilling fluids as a formation-bridging and filtercake-sealing agent; it is also a weighting material which increases the density of drilling fluids to control the downhole pressure. Calcium carbonate is added to swimming pools, as a pH corrector for maintaining alkalinity and offsetting the acidic properties of the disinfectant agent. also used for culturing mushrooms.

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• Rubber industry
• Ceramic industry
• Cosmetics
• Pigments in paints
• Uv absorber, coatings  
• Corrosin preventer
• Glove making 

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White crystal powder, density is 1.40g/cm3 (at 25º C). Melting point is 209-211C, it is soluble in water and alcohol, almost insoluble in ethyl ether and benzene, stable when dry, non-flammable.

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Calcium stearate is a waxy material with low solubility in water, unlike traditional sodium and potassium soaps. It is also easy and cheap to produce, and exhibits low toxicity. These attributes are the basis of many of its applications. Related applications exist for the magnesium stearate.

• Calcium stearate is used as a flow agent and surface conditioner in some candies such as smarties, jawbreakers and sprees.
• It is a waterproofing agent for fabrics.
• A lubricant in pencils and crayons.
• The concrete industry uses calcium stearate for efflorescence control of cementitious products used in the production of concrete masonry units i.E. Paver and block, as well as waterproofing.
• In paper production, calcium stearate is used as a lubricant to provide good gloss, preventing dusting and fold cracking in paper and paperboard making.
• In plastics, it can act as an acid scavenger or neutralizer at concentrations up to 1000ppm, a lubricant and a release agent. It may be used in plastic colorant concentrates to improve pigment wetting. In rigid pvc, it can accelerate fusion, improve flow, and reduce die swell.
• Applications in the personal care and pharmaceutical industry include tablet mold release, anti-tack agent, and gelling agent.
• Calcium stearate is a component in some types of defoamers.

 

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Cabosil M5 Silicon Dioxide Fumed Silica is a synthetic, amorphous, colloidal silicon dioxide that is generally regarded as unique in industry because of its unusual particle characteristics. Cab-o-sil fumed silica’s has extremely small particle size with a high purity. It is commonly used for filler.Cabosil is manufactured with technical collabration with german engineers.

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• Available in chemplast and gacl.

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The main application of Ammonium Chloride is as a nitrogen source in fertilizers (corresponding to 90% of the world production of ammonium chloride) such as chloroammonium phosphate. The main crops are rice and wheat in asia.

• Ammonium chloride was used in pyrotechnics in the 18th century but was superseded by safer and less hygroscopic chemicals. Its purpose was to provide a chlorine donor to enhance the green and blue colours from copper ions in the flame. It had a secondary use to provide white smoke, but its ready double decomposition reaction with potassium chlorate producing the highly unstable ammonium chlorate made its use very suspect. 
• Metalwork edit ammonium chloride is used as a flux in preparing metals to be tin coated, galvanized or soldered. It works as a flux by cleaning the surface of workpieces by reacting with the metal oxides at the surface to form a volatile metal chloride. For that purpose, it is sold in blocks at hardware stores for use in cleaning the tip of a soldering iron, and it can also be included in solder as fluxchloroammonium phosphate. The main crops are rice and wheat in asia.
• Ammonium chloride was used in pyrotechnics in the 18th century but was superseded by safer and less hygroscopic chemicals. Its purpose was to provide a chlorine donor to enhance the green and blue colours from copper ions in the flame. It had a secondary use to provide white smoke, but its ready double decomposition reaction with potassium chlorate producing the highly unstable ammonium chlorate made its use very suspect. 
• Metalwork edit ammonium chloride is used as a flux in preparing metals to be tin coated, galvanized or soldered. It works as a flux by cleaning the surface of workpieces by reacting with the metal oxides at the surface to form a volatile metal chloride. For that purpose, it is sold in blocks at hardware stores for use in cleaning the tip of a soldering iron, and it can also be included in solder as flux.

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• used in plastic industry usually to make the colour of masterbatch as uniform.

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Titanium Dioxide rutile kmml kemox  produced by the chloride process. It has the highest degree of gloss and tint retention properties in exterior film applications. It is characterized by an optical balance of high initial gloss, ease of dispersion, opacifying power and exterior weathering properties.
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• kemox rc 822  is recommended for interior and exterior enamels and lacquers for industrial and architectural purpose.

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The main use of Limestone Powder is in the construction industry, either as a building material or limestone aggregate for road building or as an ingredient of cement or as the starting material for the preparation of builder's lime by burning in a kiln. However, because of weathering mainly caused by acid rain.

• Calcium carbonate (in limestone form) is no longer used for building purposes on its own, but only as a raw/primary substance for building materials. Calcium carbonate is also used in the purification of iron from iron ore in a blast furnace. The carbonate is calcined in situ to give calcium oxide, which forms a slag with various impurities present, and separates from the purified iron.
• In the oil industry, calcium carbonate is added to drilling fluids as a formation-bridging and filtercake-sealing agent; it is also a weighting material which increases the density of drilling fluids to control the downhole pressure. Calcium carbonate is added to swimming pools, as a ph corrector for maintaining alkalinity and offsetting the acidic properties of the disinfectant agent.
• It is also used as a raw material in the refining of sugar from sugar beet; it is calcined in a kiln with anthracite to produce calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. This burnt lime is then slaked in sweet water to produce a calcium hydroxide suspension for the precipitation of impurities in raw juice during carbonatation.
• Calcium carbonate has traditionally been a major component of blackboard chalk. However, modern manufactured chalk is mostly gypsum, hydrated calcium sulfate caso4·2h2o. Calcium carbonate is a main source for growing seacrete, or biorock. Precipitated calcium carbonate (pcc), pre-dispersed in slurry form, is a common filler material for latex gloves.

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Lead Stearate primarily used as internal lubricant and stabilizer in pvc. Widely used in rigid pvc pipes, profiles and cable compounds. Also used in reinforced suction hoses, sheets, tubings, petroleum, greases, varnish and paints.

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Magnesium Chloride is one of many substances used for dust control, soil stabilization and wind Erosion mitigation.When magnesium chloride is applied to roads and bare soil areas, both positive and negative performance issues occur which are related to many application factors.
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• Ziegler-Natta catalysts, heavily used to produce polyethylene, contain MgCl₂ as a catalyst support.  Ice control
• Picture of truck applying liquid de-icer (magnesium chloride) to city streets.Picture of solid form of rock salt used for ice removal on streets.
• Magnesium chloride is used for low-temperature de-icing of highways, sidewalks, and parking lots. When highways are treacherous due to icy conditions, magnesium chloride helps to prevent the ice bond, allowing snow plows to clear the roads more efficiently. Magnesium chloride is used in three ways for pavement ice control: Anti-icing, when maintenance professionals spread it onto roads before a snow storm to prevent snow from sticking and ice from forming; pre-wetting, which means a liquid formulation of magnesium chloride is sprayed directly onto salt as it is being spread onto roadway pavement, wetting the salt so that it sticks to the road; and pre-treating, when magnesium chloride and salt are mixed together before they are loaded onto trucks and spread onto paved roads. While it is generally accepted that ongoing use of any de-icer (ice melter) will eventually contribute to some degradation of the concrete surface to which it is applied, some de-icers are gentler on concrete than others. Past studies have often utilized high temperatures to accelerate the impact to concrete. By setting parameters that more closely represent real-world de-icing conditions, Purdue University researchers measured the impact of magnesium chloride and calcium chloride on concrete. Their study concluded that calcium chloride damages concrete twice as fast as magnesium chloride.

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• Magnesium chloride is used in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical preparations.

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• Magnesium chloride (E511^[10]) is an important coagulant used in the preparation of tofu from soy milk. In Japan it is sold as nigari (?????????, derived from the Japanese word for "bitter"), a white powder produced from seawater after the sodium chloride has been removed, and the water evaporated. In China, it is called lushui (??????). Nigari or lushui consists mostly of magnesium chloride, with some magnesium sulfate and other trace elements. It is also an ingredient in baby formula milk.
• Gardening and horticulture. Because magnesium is a mobile nutrient, magnesium chloride can be effectively used as a substitute for magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) to help correct magnesium deficiency in plants via foliar feeding. The recommended dose of magnesium chloride is smaller than the recommended dose of magnesium sulfate (20 g/L).
• This is due primarily to the chlorine present in magnesium chloride, which can easily reach toxic levels if over-applied or applied too often. It has been found that higher concentrations of magnesium in tomato and some pepper plants can make them more susceptible to disease caused by infection of the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris

• , since magnesium is essential for bacterial growth.

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Activated Alumina Balls is used for a wide range of adsorbent and catalyst applications including the adsorption of catalysts in polyethylene production, in hydrogen peroxide production, as a selective adsorbent for many chemicals.

Desiccant:

• Used as a desiccant, it works by a process called adsorption. The water in the air actually sticks to the alumina itself in between the tiny passages as the air passes through them. The water molecules become trapped so that the air is dried out as it passes through the filter. This process is reversible. If the alumina desiccant is heated to ~200 °C, it will release the trapped water. This process is called regenerating the desiccant.

Fluoride adsorbent:

• Activated alumina is also widely used to remove fluoride from drinking water. In the US, there are widespread programs to fluoridate drinking water. However, in certain regions, such as the Rajasthan region of India, there is enough fluoride in the water to cause fluorosis. A study from the Harvard school of Public Health found exposure to fluoride as a child correlated with lower IQ. Activated alumina filters can easily reduce fluoride levels from 10.0 ppm to less than 1.0 ppm. The amount of fluoride leached from the water being filtered depends on how long the water is actually touching the alumina filter media. Basically, the more alumina in the filter, the less fluoride will be in the final, filtered water. Lower temperature water, and lower pH water (acidic water) are filtered more effectively too. Ideal pH for treatment is 5.5, which allows for up to a 95% removal rate.

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When limestone is crushed into powder, it is sometimes referred to by its chemical name,Imercarb 7, or its chemical symbol, CaCO₃. Limestone and CaCO₃ are therefore the same material, but used in different ways — the first is used as aggregate in the construction industry or as a 'flux' (used for removing chemical impurities) in the iron and steel industry, while the second is used in the chemical and manufacturing industries.

• When limestone is heated ('calcined') to temperatures of between 900 and 1000°C, carbon dioxide (CO₂) is driven off and calcium oxide (CaO) or 'lime' is the result. Lime is an important ingredient in the manufacturing and chemical industry. Not all limestones are suitable due to the impurities they contain. The largest source of pure limestone is Carboniferous limestone, which is quarried mainly in areas of natural beauty including the North Pennines, Peak District and Mendip Hills. Chalk in southern and eastern England is the other important source of CaCO₃ and is used especially for cement, but is also used in other ways such as toothpaste and in baking.
• There are many uses for chalk and limestone. Most is used by the construction industry, but some is used in manufacturing and the chemical industry.

• manufacturing industry
• chemical industry
• neutralising acids
• construction
• iron and steel industr

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Potassium Metabisulfite is sometimes added to lemon juice as a preservative.

• Potassium metabisulfite is used in the textile industry for dyeing and cotton printing.
• Potassium metabisulfite is sometimes used to precipitate gold from solution in aqua regia (as an alternative to sodium sulfite).
• It is a component of certain photographic developers and solutions used in photographic fixing.^[4]
• It is used as a bleaching agent in the production of Coconut cream.
• It is used in some pickles as a preservative.

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Triethanolamine is used primarily in making surfactants, such as for emulsifier. It is a common ingredient in formulations used for both industrial and consumer products. The triethanolamine neutralizes fatty acids, adjusts and buffers the pH, and solubilizes oils and other ingredients that are not completely soluble in water.

• Triethanolammonium salts in some cases are more soluble than salts of alkali metals that might be used otherwise, and results in less alkaline products than would from using alkali metal hydroxides to form the salt.. Some common products in which triethanolamine is found are liquid laundry detergents, dishwashing liquids, general cleaners, hand sanitizers, polishes, metalworking fluids, paints, shaving cream , printing inks, cosmetics and cement.

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Di-Calcium Phosphate is mainly used as a dietary supplement in prepared breakfast cereals, dog treats, enriched flour, and noodle products. It is also used as a tableting agent in some pharmaceutical preparations, including some products meant to eliminate body odor. Dibasic calcium phosphate is also found in some dietary calcium supplements (e.G. Bonexcin). It is used in poultry feed. It is also used in some toothpastes as a tartar control agent.

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Trisodium Phosphate was at one time extensively used in formulations for a variety of consumer grade soaps and detergents, and the most common use for trisodium phosphate has been in cleaning agents. The ph of a 1% solution is 12 (i.E., very basic), and the solution is sufficiently alkaline to saponify grease and oils. In combination with surfactants, tsp is an excellent agent for cleaning everything from laundry to concrete driveways. This versatility and low manufacturing price made tsp the basis for a plethora of cleaning products sold in the mid-20th century. Tsp is still sold and used as a cleaning agent but since the late 1960s its use has diminished in the united states and many other parts of the world because, like many phosphate-based cleaners, it is known to cause extensive eutrophication of lakes and rivers once it enters a water system. substitutes are generally not as effective.

• Tsp is commonly used after cleaning a surface with mineral spirits in order to remove hydrocarbon residues and may be used with household chlorine bleach in the same solution without hazardous reactions.[citation needed] this mixture is particularly effective for removing mildew, but is less effective at removing mold.
• Although it is still the active ingredient in some toilet bowl cleaning tablets, tsp is generally not recommended for cleaning bathrooms because it can stain metal fixtures and can damage grout.

 

 

Chlorinated Trisodium Phosphate:

• With the formula na3po4.¼ naocl.11 h2o, the material called chlorinated trisodium phosphate is used as a disinfectant and bleach, like sodium hypochlorite. It is prepared using naocl in place of some of the base to neutralize phosphoric acid.
• in the u.S., trisodium phosphate is an approved flux for use in hard soldering joints in medical grade copper plumbing. The flux is applied as a concentrated water solution and dissolves copper oxides at the temperature used in copper brazing. Residues are water-soluble and can be rinsed out before plumbing is put into service. T
• sp is used as an ingredient in fluxes designed to deoxygenate nonferrous metals for casting. It can be used in ceramic production to lower the flow point of glazes.

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• Tsp is still in common use for the cleaning, degreasing and deglossing of walls prior to painting. Tsp breaks the gloss of oil-based paints and opens the pores of latex-based paint providing a surface better suited for the adhesion of the subsequent layer.

Food Additive:

• Sodium phosphates including monosodium phosphate, disodium phosphate, and trisodium phosphate are approved as food additives in the eu. They are commonly used as acidity regulators and have the collective e number e339.
• The united states food and drug administration lists sodium phosphates as generally recognized as safe.

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Aluminum Silicate is a naturally occurring mineral derived from refined and purified clay that is used primarily as a thickener in cosmetics and beauty products. It is naturally of a flaky, white consistency and is used most often as a filler in deodorants, shaving creams and thick lotions.

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• Vulcanising Rubber
• Flux
• Textile
• Paper Processing
• Radiators
• Disinfectant
• Smoke Screen

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Get Best price of >99% pure 20 kg bag of Polyvinyl Alcohol CAS No. 9002-89-5, (C2H4O)x. For Certificate of Analysis (COA) & MSDS, kindly contact us.

Polyvinyl Alcohol is used as an emulsion polymerization aid, as protective colloid, to make polyvinyl acetate dispersions.

Uses of polyvinyl alcohol include:

• Paper adhesive with boric acid in spiral tube winding and solid board production
• Thickener, modifier, in polyvinyl acetate glues
• Textile sizing agent
• Paper coatings, release liner
• As a water-soluble film useful for packaging. An example is the envelope containing laundry detergent in "liqui-tabs".
• Feminine hygiene and adult incontinence products as a biodegradable plastic backing sheet.
• Carbon dioxide barrier in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles
• As a film used in the water transfer printing process
• As a form release because materials such as epoxy do not stick to it
• Movie practical effect and children's play putty or slime when combined with borax
• Used in eye drops (such as artificial tears to treat dry eyes) and hard contact lens solution as a lubricant
• PVA fiber, as reinforcement in concrete
• Raw material to polyvinyl nitrate (PVN) an ester of nitric acid and polyvinyl alcohol.
• As a surfactant for the formation of polymer encapsulated nanobeads
• Used in protective chemical-resistant gloves
• Used as a fixative for specimen collection, especially stool samples
• When doped with iodine, PVA can be used to polarize light
• As an embolization agent in medical procedures
• Carotid phantoms for use as synthetic vessels in Doppler flow testing
• Used in 3D printing as support structure that can then be dissolved away.

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• Polyvinyl alcohol dust is mildly irritating to the eyes and causes discomfort if inhaled. 
• Treat as a nuisance dust and avoid inhalation or contact with eyes. 
• There are no known detrimental effects arising from short-term polyvinyl alcohol exposure either as a solid or in solution with water.
• Can cause coughing & chest discomfort

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• Packaging Details: 20 KGS

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These chemicals are excellent oil / water soluble detergents, emulsifiers / co-emulsifiers, wetting / cleaning and dispersing agents and intermediates for sulphation. As such, they find application in the textile, detergent, agrochemical, emulsion polymerisation and paint industries. Alkyd Phenol Ethoxylate powder is manufactured in accordance with international standards.

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1. One of the major uses of Hexamine is in the manufacture of dinitrosopentamethylene-tetramine, a blowing agent for rubber.
2. It is used as a catalyst in the manufacture of Bakelite phenol formaldehyde molding powders.
3. It is used as a basic raw material in slurry explosives.
4. It has many other applications in the manufacture of plastics, paints, foundry resins, textiles, plywood, laminated sheets, cement, fertilizers, pesticides, solid fuel tablets etc.
5. Unstabilized Hexamine is used in adhesives, coatings and sealing compounds, in the preservation of hides, as cross-linking agent for hardening phenol-formaldehyde resins and vulcanizing rubber, as corrosion inhibitor for steel, as dye fixative, as fuel tablets for camping stoves, as stabilizer for lubricating and insulating oils, for manufacture of explosives, chemical detection of metals and as an urinary antiseptic.
6. Stabilized Hexamine is used in process industry, as per the requirements of specific customers.

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• Used by civil Engineers for concrete mix.

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Enriched by our vast industrial experience in this business, we are involved in offering an enormous quality range of Maleic Anhydride Powder. used in frp and polyester resin industry.

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We are the most trusted name amongst the topmost companies in this business, instrumental in presenting Phthalic Anhydride.

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Nirma Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash-Light) used in manufacture of glass and soaps . Also used in manufacture of certain sodium intermediate. Soda ash we sell is of industrial grade and very high quality.

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The main use of Calcium Carbonate is in the construction industry, either as a building material or limestone aggregate for road building or as an ingredient of cement or as the starting material for the preparation of builder's lime by burning in a kiln. However, because of weathering mainly caused by acid rain,

• Calcium carbonate (in limestone form) is no longer used for building purposes on its own, but only as a raw/primary substance for building materials. Calcium carbonate is also used in the purification of iron from iron ore in a blast furnace. The carbonate is calcined in situ to give calcium oxide, which forms a slag with various impurities present, and separates from the purified iron.
• In the oil industry, calcium carbonate is added to drilling fluids as a formation-bridging and filtercake-sealing agent; it is also a weighting material which increases the density of drilling fluids to control the downhole pressure. Calcium carbonate is added to swimming pools, as a ph corrector for maintaining alkalinity and offsetting the acidic properties of the disinfectant agent.
• It is also used as a raw material in the refining of sugar from sugar beet; it is calcined in a kiln with anthracite to produce calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. This burnt lime is then slaked in sweet water to produce a calcium hydroxide suspension for the precipitation of impurities in raw juice during carbonatation.
• Calcium carbonate has traditionally been a major component of blackboard chalk. However, modern manufactured chalk is mostly gypsum, hydrated calcium sulfate caso4·2h2o. Calcium carbonate is a main source for growing seacrete, or biorock. Precipitated calcium carbonate (pcc), pre-dispersed in slurry form, is a common filler material for latex gloves with the aim of achieving maximum saving in material and production costs.
• Fine ground calcium carbonate (gcc) is an essential ingredient in the microporous film used in diapers and some building films as the pores are nucleated around the calcium carbonate particles during the manufacture of the film by biaxial stretching. Gcc or pcc is used as a filler in paper because they are cheaper than wood fiber. In terms of market volume, gcc are the most important types of fillers currently used.
• Printing and writing paper can contain 10–20% calcium carbonate. In north america, calcium carbonate has begun to replace kaolin in the production of glossy paper. Europe has been practicing this as alkaline papermaking or acid-free papermaking for some decades. Pcc used for paper filling and paper coatings is precipitated and prepared in a variety of shapes and sizes having characteristic narrow particle size distributions and equivalent spherical diameters of 0.4 to 3 micrometres.
• Calcium carbonate is widely used as an extender in paints,
• In particular matte emulsion paint where typically 30% by weight of the paint is either chalk or marble. It is also a popular filler in plastics.
• Some typical examples include .

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Used To Stabilise Heating Process In Manufacture Of Pvc Pipes.

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The Potassium Hydroxide Flakes (Caustic Potash) is used to prepare the corresponding "potassium soaps", which are softer than the more common sodium hydroxide-derived soaps. Because of their softness and greater solubility, potassium soaps require less water to liquefy, and can thus contain more cleaning agent than liquefied sodium soaps.

• As an electrolyte[edit]potassium carbonate, formed from the hydroxide solution leaking from an alkaline battery.A
• queous potassium hydroxide is employed as the electrolyte in alkaline batteries based on nickel-cadmium, nickel-hydrogen, and manganese dioxide-zinc. Potassium hydroxide is preferred over sodium hydroxide because its solutions are more conductive.
• The nickel–metal hydride batteries in the toyota prius use a mixture of potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide.
• Non batteries also use potassium hydroxide electrolyte.

Niche Applications:

• like sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide attracts numerous specialized applications, virtually all of which rely on its properties as a strong chemical base with its consequent ability to degrade many materials. For example, in a process commonly referred to as "chemical cremation" or "resomation", potassium hydroxide hastens the decomposition of soft tissues, both animal and human, to leave behind only the bones and other hard tissues.
• Entomologists wishing to study the fine structure of insect anatomy may use a 10% aqueous solution of koh to apply this process.I
• n chemical synthesis, the choice between the use of koh and the use of naoh is guided by the solubility of the resulting salt.
• The corrosive properties of potassium hydroxide make it a useful ingredient in agents and preparations that clean and disinfect surfaces and materials that can themselves resist corrosion by koh.
• koh is also used for semiconductor chip fabrication. See also: anisotropic wet etching.
• Potassium hydroxide is often the main active ingredient in chemical "cuticle removers" used in manicure treatments.
• Because aggressive bases like koh damage the cuticle of the hair shaft, potassium hydroxide is used to chemically assist the removal of hair from animal hides. The hides are soaked for several hours in a solution of koh and water to prepare them for the unhairing stage of the tanning process. This same effect is also used to weaken human hair in preparation for shaving. Preshave products and some shave creams contain potassium hydroxide to force open the hair cuticle and to act as a hygroscopic agent to attract and force water into the hair shaft, causing further damage to the hair. In this weakened state, the hair is more easily cut by a razor blade.
• Potassium hydroxide is used to identify some species of fungi. A 3–5% aqueous solution of koh is applied to the flesh of a mushroom and the researcher notes whether or not the color of the flesh changes. Certain species of gilled mushrooms, boletes, polypores, and lichens are identifiable based on this color-change reaction.

Petroleum Refineries:

• Potassium hydroxide is also used in petroleum and natural-gas refining for removal of organic acids and sulfur compounds.