PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

H.S. CODE

CLASSIFICATION

Phosphate

EXTRA NOTES

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

AUTOIGNITION

NFPA RATINGS

REFRACTIVE INDEX

EXTERNAL LINKS & GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Wikipedia Linking - Sodium hexametaphosphate

Google Scholar Search - Sodium hexametaphosphate

Drug Information Portal (U.S. National Library of Medicine) - Sodium hexametaphosphate

PubChem Compound Summary - Sodium hexametaphosphate

IPCS INCHEM -  PHOSPHORIC ACID AND PHOSPHATE SALTS

KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) - Sodium hexametaphosphate

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ - Sodium hexametaphosphate

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ - Sodium hexametaphosphate

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Hazardous Substances Data Bank - Sodium hexametaphosphate

http://www.phosphatesfacts.org/
What are Phosphates? Phosphorus is a nutrient vital to human, animal, and plant life. It is one of the most common substances in our environment, naturally occurring in our food, our water and our bodies. In your body, phosphorus is present in your genes, your teeth, and your bones -- even your muscles work because of the phosphorus in adenosine triphosphate. According to author Arthur Toy, elemental phosphorus was discovered accidentally in 1669 while an impoverished German chemist was trying to make gold. Today phosphorus is an important part of many of the products that are indispensable to modern living and good health. A single phosphorus compound can have a broad range of applications. For example, sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP), a critical ingredient to the performance capabilities of automatic dishwasher detergents (see here for additional information) is also used to preserve the moisture and flavor in shrimp and hams and can be used in mineral processing. When calcium is added to phosphorus compounds, we get products such as monocalcium phosphate, a leavening agent in baking to make biscuits tender. Dicalcium phosphate is used as a polishing agent in toothpaste, and tricalcium phosphate is the conditioning agent in salt that keeps it flowing freely.

Local:
Sodium Hexametaphosphate is used as sequestering agent. It is used in the industry of soap, detergents, water treatment, metal finishing and plating, pulp and paper manufacture, synthesis of polymers, photographic products, textiles, scale removal and agriculture. The salt forms of phosphate polymers is used as a sequestering agent. As phosphate polymers themselves are hydrated in water at high temperature or high pH, and thereby revert to a more simple and stable phosphate form, which can no longer sequester metal ions.

TECH GRADE

FOOD GRADE

APPEARANCE

White Powder

68.0% min

68.0% min

0.05% max

0.05% max

pH

5.8 - 7.3

5.8 - 6.5

0.005% max

0.005% max

3ppm max

10ppm max