Description of Potassium Chloride:
Potassium Chloride (KCl, or potassium salt) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal appearance.
The solid dissolves readily in water, and its solutions have a salt-like taste. Potassium chloride can be obtained from ancient dried lake deposits.
It occurs naturally as the mineral sylvite, and in combination with sodium chloride as sylvinite. its solutions have a salt-like taste.
It is used in buffers, fertilizers, medicine, scientific applications, food processing and explosives.
sylvite is also used as a flux for the gas welding of aluminum along with sodium chloride and lithium chloride.
Application of Potassium chloride:
The majority of the potassium chloride produced is used for making fertilizer, since the growth of many plants is limited by their potassium intake.
As a chemical feedstock it is used for the manufacture of potassium hydroxide and potassium metal.
It is also used in medicine, scientific applications, food processing, as a sodium-free substitute for table salt (sodium chloride), and in judicial execution through lethal injection.
It is sometimes used in water as a completion fluid in oil and gas operations.
KCl is useful as a beta radiation source for calibration of radiation monitoring equipment because natural potassium contains 0.0118% of the isotope 40K.
One kilogram of KCl yields 16350 becquerels of radiation consisting of 89.28% beta and 10.72% gamma with 1.46083 MeV.
It makes up 70% of Ace Hardware’s allegedly pet and vegetarian friendly “Ice Melt” though inferior in melting quality to calcium chloride (0° F v. -25° F).
Industrial uses include:
Agricultural chemicals (non-pesticidal)
Intermediates
Laboratory chemicals
Plating agents and surface treating agents
Processing aids, not otherwise listed
Processing aids, specific to petroleum production
Consumer uses include:
Agricultural Products (non-pesticidal)
Anti-Freeze and De-icing Products
Building/Construction Materials not covered elsewhere
Electrical and Electronic Products
Metal Products not covered elsewhere
Paints and Coatings
Water Treatment Products
Packing of Sylvite:
It is packed in 25 and 50KG PP bags for preventing to absorb moisture.
According to our customers inquiry, Potassium Chloride also offered in Jumbo bag or putting PP bags on a pallet and shrinking.
Specification of Potassium Chloride:
| Parameter | Result |
|---|---|
| Physical appearance | White Granular Powder |
| Specific Gravity | 1.1278 |
| Bulk Density | 124.856 lb/ft3 |
| PH 22% Solution | 7.74 |
| Solubility | Soluble |
| Particle Size (Wt%) | 200-325 mesh ≥ 90% |
| Softening Point (C°) | --- |
| Insoluble % | 0.35 |
| Wet % | 0.06 |
| CaCl2 % | 0.02 |
| MgCl2 % | 0.46 |
| NaCl % | 2.20 |
| K2O % | 60.60 |
| KCl % | 95.92 |
