Product details
1. Chemical Name: Potassium citrate
2. Molecular Formula: K3C6H5O7·H2O
3. Molecular Weight: 324.41
4. CAS: 6100-05-6
5. Character: It is white crystal or powder, odorless, tasting salty. It's slightly deliquescent,easily soluble in water or glycerine , almost insoluble in ethanol. Relative density is 1.98. It will melt and decompose when heated to 230 ºC.
6. Usage: In food processing industry, it is used as buffer, chelate agent, stabilizer, antioxidant, emulsifier and flavoring. It can be used in dairy product,jelly, jam, meat and tinned pastry. It also can be used as emulsifier in cheese and refreshing in oranges and etc. In pharmaceutical, it is used for hypokalimia, potassium depletion and alkalization of urine.
7. Packing: It is packed with polyethylene bag as liner and a compound plastic woven bag as the outer layer. The net weight of each bag is 25kg.
Product Parameter
Product Parameter
Test item | Standard |
Assay(as dry basis) ≥% | 99.0-100.5 |
Light transmittance ≥% | 95.0 |
Chlorides (Cl) ≤% | 0.005 |
Loss on drying % | 3.0-6.0 |
Sulphate ≤% | 0.015 |
Oxalate ≤% | 0.03 |
Arsenic(As) ≤mg/kg | 1.0 |
Water insoluble substances | Passes test |
Calcium ≤% | 0.02 |
Iron ≤mg/kg | 5.0 |
Lead(Pb) ≤mg/kg | 2.0 |
Alkalinity | Passes test |
Readily carbonizable substances ≤ | 1.0 |
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