Sodium citrate is colorless or white crystal and crystalline powder. It is inodorous and taste salt, cool. It will loss crystal water at 150° C and decompose at more high temperature. It dissolves in ethanol.
Sodium citrate is used to enhance flavor and maintain stability of active ingredients in food and beverage in detergent industry, it can replace Sodium tripolyphosphate as a kind of safe detergent it can aloe be used in fermentation, injection, photography and metal plating
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ITEM
STANDARD
CHARACTERISTIC
WHITE CRYSTAL POWDERS
IDENTIFICATION
PASS TEST
APPEARANCE OF SOLUTION
PASS TEST
ALKALINITY
PASS TEST
LOSS ON DRYING
11.00-13.00%
HEAVY METALS
NOT MORE THAN 5PPM
OXALATES
NOT MORE THAN 100PPM
CHLORIDES
NOT MORE THAN 50PPM
SULPHATES
NOT MORE THAN 150PPM
PH VALUE (5% AQUEOUS SOLUTION)
7.5-9.0
PURITY
99.00-100.50%
READILY CARBONISABLE SUBSTANCES
PASS TEST
PYROGENS
PASS TEST
ARSENIC
NOT MORE THAN 1PPM
LEAD
NOT MORE THAN 1PPM
MERCURY
NOT MORE THAN 1PPM