Name: Potassium Alum
Brand: RXSOL
SKU: RXSOL-19-6027-025

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Product code RXSOL-19-6027-025

Unit: Kg.PWD
Quantity per unit: 25.00

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Potash Alum, also known as potassium aluminum sulfate, is a chemical compound with the formula (KAl(SO4)2.12H2O). It's a type of alum that's commonly used in medicine, water purification, and other applications.

Application

Potassium alum is commonly used in water purification, Leather Tanning, Dyeing, Fireproof Textiles, and Baking Powder.

Technical Specifications

Molar Mass	258.192 g/mol (anhydrous) 474.37 g/mol (dodecahydrate)
Density	1.725 g/cm3
Melting Point	92 to 95 °C (198 to 203 °F; 365 to 368 K)
Boiling Point	200 °C (392 °F; 473 K)

Test	Specification	Result
Appearance (Color)	White	White
Appearance (Form)	Powder	Powder
Solubility (Color)	Colorless	Colorless
Solubility (Turbidity) 0.5M, H2O	Clear to Slightly Hazy	Clear
Calcium (Ca)	_ 0.0005 %	0.0005 %
Copper (Cu)	_ 0.0005 %	0.0005 %
Iron (Fe)	_ 0.001 %	0.001 %
Magnesium (Mg)	_ 0.005 %	0.005 %
Sodium (Na)	_ 0.02 %	0.02 %
Phosphorus (P)	_ 0.0005 %	0.0005 %
Lead (Pb)	_ 0.001 %	0.001 %
Zinc (Zn)	_ 0.0005 %	0.0005 %
Chloride (Cl) or = 0.0005%	Pass	Pass
Insoluble Matter	_ 0.005 %	0.002 %
Ammonia (NH4)	_ 0.005 %	0.002 %
Purity by Titration by EDTA	_> 98.0 %	99.8 %

Heading9 - Marine Chemicals

Form	Liquid
Colour	Dark brown
Odour	Hydrocarbon-like.
Odor Threshold	No Information Available
pH	Not Applicable
Melting Point	-40 °F ( -40 °C)
Boiling Point	348.8 °F (176 °C)
Flash Point	150.1 °F (65.6 °C) Pensky-Martens Closed Cup
Evaporation Rate	1 (Ether =1)
Flammability (solid, gas)	Not Applicable
Explosive limits Lower / Uper	Not Available
Vapour pressure	5 mm Hg @ 21°C
Vapour Density	> 1 (Air =1)
Secific Gravity	1.42
Decomposition Temperature	No information available
Partition coefficient	No data available
Autoignition Temperature	No data available
Solubility in Water	Not Soluble
Viscosity	400 cSt @ 60°F
Explosive properties

Other Names

Potassium Aluminum Sulfate, Fitkari

Industrial Area

Uses of Potash Alum

Fire Retardant

The use of potassium alum for textiles, wood and paperless flame resistance is a fire-retardant.

Tanning

For leather tanning, potassium alum is used to extract moisture from the hide and avoid rotting. Alum is not covered and can be washed out, as compared to tannic acid.

Iron and Steel Dissolving

This aluminium solution has the property that steels are dissolved without affecting aluminium or base metals. For machined castings of steel parts of machinery, alum solutions can be used.

Gourmet Food

Potassium alum may be an acidic component in baking powder to provide a second leavening step at high temperatures (although sodium alum is more widely used for this purpose). Bakers in England made bread whiter with alum during the 1800s.

Used for Dyeing

Alum was used to form a permanent link between natural textile fibres like wool and dye, as mordant.

Pigmentation of the Lake

Aluminium hydroxide from alum acts as a base for most lake pigments.

Blocking Chemicals

Since remote antiquity, potassium alum was used for purifying turbid liquids. The drinking water and industrial water systems, effluent treatment, and post-storm lake procedures continue to be commonly used for the treatment of pollutants in precipitation.

Water is applied to the domestic wastewaters roughly 30 to 40 ppm of alum, but more commonly to the industrial wastewater to clump negative particles into the flocs and float them up to the liquid bottom, or more conveniently filter them out of liquid before further filtration and disinfection of the water.

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