Potassium Metabisulfite

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Potassium Meta Bisulphite E224 Food Grade :

Description: White crystalline powder, free from extraneous Matter with a faint odour of sulphur dioxide gas.

Our Potassium Meta Bisulphite is used as a photographic chemical, dyes intermediate and preservative chemical. These are white free-flowing powder, free from foreign particles. Our range is widely appreciated by clients due to accurate composition, precise pH value, purity and effectiveness.

Potassium Metabisulphite, K₂S₂O₅, also known as potassium pyrosulfite, is a white crystalline powder with a pungent odour. It is mainly used as an antioxidant or chemical sterilant. As a disulfite, it is chemically very similar to sodium Metabisulphite, with which it is sometimes used interchangeably.

Another Name: Potassium Pyrosulifte

Uses:

• It is used as a food additive, also known as E224. It is restricted in use and may cause allergic reactions in some sensitive persons.
• It is used as a bleaching agent in the production of coconut cream. It is used as a reducing agent to break sulphide bonds in shrunken items of clothing made of natural fibres.
• It is used as an SO₂ source (mixed with air or oxygen) for the destruction of cyanide in commercial gold cyanidation processes.
• Potassium metabisulfite is sometimes added to lemon juice as a preservative.
• Potassium metabisulfite is used in the textile industry for dyeing and cotton printing.
• It is a component of certain photographic developers and solutions used in photographic fixing.
• It is used as a bleaching agent in the production of coconut cream.
• It is used in some pickles as a preservative.
• It is used in tint etching iron-based metal samples for microstructural analysis. 
• It is used in Aam papad as a preservative.

Formula: K₂S₂O₅

Molar mass: 222.32 g/mol

Solubility: Insoluble in ethanol

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