Sodium acetate
- Product Content
Sodium acetate anhydrous occurs as colorless, transparent crystals or as a granular, crystalline or white powder. The anhydrous form is hydrous from dissolves in about 2ml water, 1g of the trihydrate dissolves in about 0.8ml water and in about 19ml alcohol.
Specification:
Test Item | Unit | The Standard |
Appearance | White crystalline odorless powder | |
Assay (C2H3NaO2 on dried) | % | 99.0-101 |
PH(1%solution) | 8.0~9.5 | |
Alkalinity | % | 0.2 Max. |
Potassium Compounds | Pass test | |
Loss on Drying | % | 2 Max |
Formic acid, formals and other oxidisable substances | % | 0.1 Max. |
Lead(Pb) | % | 0.0002 Max. |
Arsenic(As) | % | 0.0003 Max. |
Mercury(Hg) | % | 0.0001 Max. |
Application
Sodium acetate anhydrous can be used as suffering agent flavoring agent and PH conditioning agent in food industry. It also can be used as accessory in pharmaceutical industry.