Potassium Formate
CAS Registry Number: 590-29-4 | Formula: HCOOK
Applications
Molecular formula: HCOOK
CAS number: 590-29-4
Appearance: White crystalline powder
Properties: Highly hygroscopic, reducing property, can react with strong oxidants. Density is 1.9100 g/cm³. Soluble in water. Non-toxic and non-corrosive. The aqueous solution is a colorless transparent liquid. The density of the saturated solution is 1.58 g/cm³.
Usage: Used as a weighting agent and clay stabilizer for drilling fluid, completion fluid, and well servicing fluid; environmentally friendly snow/ice melting and deicing agent, with extremely low corrosiveness to concrete, steel bars, and plants, and no odor after melting; industrially, can be used in leather: as a masking acid in chrome tanning process, in printing and dyeing: as a reducing agent, in building cement: as an early strength agent, in organic synthesis: as a reducing agent and intermediate; agriculturally, can be used as potassium fertilizer, to improve saline-alkali land.
Packaging: Inner lined with transparent plastic bags, outer wrapped with plastic woven bags, 25 kilograms per bag.
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INDEX |
STANDARD |
RESULT |
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Appearance |
White solid |
White solid |
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Potassium Formate %≥ |
97.0 |
97.36 |
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KOH %≤ |
0.5 |
0.06 |
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K2CO3 %≤ |
0.5 |
0.10 |
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KCL %≤ |
0.3 |
0.15 |
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K2S %≤ |
0.5 |
0.24 |
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Water %≤ |
1.2 |
0.81 |
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DENS of salt water g/cm3 ≥ |
1.580 |
1.592 |
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PH |
7-10 |
9.59 |