It is colorless, transparent or white with yellowish diamond crystal, slightly bitter and easy to deliquesce.
Enamel industry is used as flux, oxidant and raw material for preparing enamel powder. The glass industry is used as a decolorizing agent, defoaming agent, clarifying agent and oxidizing flux for various glasses and products. No starvation industry is used as a decolorizing agent for molten caustic soda and for the manufacture of other nitrates.
It is colorless, transparent or white with yellowish diamond crystal, slightly bitter and easy to deliquesce.
Density 1.1 g / mL at 25 ° C
Storage conditions Store at RT.
Solubility H2O: 1 M at 20 ° C, clear, colorless
Water solubility 900 g / L (20 oC)
Sensitivity Hygroscopic
Merck 14,8647
Melting point 306 ° C (dec.) (Lit.)
Boiling point 380 ° C
Used as a coloring agent for meat processing in the food industry, it can prevent the meat from spoiling and can play a seasoning role. The chemical fertilizer industry is used as a quick-acting fertilizer suitable for acid soils, especially for root crops, such as sugar beet and radish. The dye industry is used as a raw material for the production of picric acid and dyes. Used as a heat treatment agent for steelmaking and aluminum alloys in the metallurgical industry. Jicheng Industry is used as metal cleaning agent and formulating ferrous metal bluing agent.