Popular Potassium Carbonate Crystals , Industrial Bulk Potassium Carbonate

Specification: Industrial Grade ( GB/T 1587-2000 )

Specification: Food Grade (HG2452-93)

Applications

•  for soap, glass, and china production
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• as a mild drying agent where other drying agents, such as calcium
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• chloride and magnesium sulfate, may be incompatible. It is not suitable
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• for acidic compounds, but can be useful for drying an organic phase if
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• one has a small amount of acidic impurity. It may also be used to dry
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• some ketones, alcohols, and amines prior to distillation.
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• in cuisine, where it has many traditional uses. It is an ingredient in the
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• production of grass jelly, a food consumed in Chinese and Southeast
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• Asian cuisines, as well as Chinese noodles and moon cake. It is used to
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• tenderize tripe. German gingerbread recipes often use potassium
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• carbonate as a baking agent, although in combination with hartshorn. It is
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• however important that the right quantities are used to prevent harm, and
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• cooks should not use it without guidance.
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• in the production of cocoa powder to balance the pH (i.e., reduce the
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• acidity) of natural cocoa beans; it also enhances aroma. The process of
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• adding potassium carbonate to cocoa powder is usually called "Dutching"
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• (and the products referred to as Dutch-processed cocoa powder), as the
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• process was first developed in 1828 by Coenrad Johannes van Houten, a
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• Dutchman.
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• as a buffering agent in the production of mead or wine.
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• in antique documents, it is reported to have been used to soften hard
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• water.
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• as a fire suppressant in extinguishing deep-fat fryers and various other B
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• class-related fires.
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• in condensed aerosol fire suppression, although as the byproduct of
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• potassium nitrate.
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• as an ingredient in welding fluxes, and in the flux coating on arc-welding
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• rods.
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• as an aid to stability in neurons helping to maintain equilibrium.
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• as an animal feed ingredient to satisfy the potassium requirements of
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• farmed animals such as broiler breeders.