Potassium Carbonate

The potassium carbonate is especially used to produce hard glasses; it is also used to produce ceramics and enamels, to prepare liquid soaps and toilet articles; to produce chemical products for photography.
In chemical industry it is used as starting material for pure potassium salts; it is also used to produce oxalic acid, and also in a large number of inorganic chemical products. It is used in mineral water and fertilizer industry. It is used to produce printing inks, colours etc. It is used pure to tan leather, in textile industry, in galvanoplastics. It is also used as a dehydrating and as a bleaching, it is used to remove carbon dioxide from compressed gases of synthesis, etc. pure salt is used in analytical chemistry, in medicine and in pharmaceutical.
In photography potassium carbonate is used as alkali, that is as a product destined, in developer, to create the suitable environment for the detecting substance to work. In equivalent molecular dose, the potassium carbonate allows to reach an higher pH than sodium carbonate, being it more dissociated but in certain situations it could produce the detachment of the gelatine and the colouring of the sensitive layer more easily than sodium carbonate. In practice the two salts can be used indifferently, using the same weight because the error caused by the difference in molecular weight is marginal practical effects.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
	Scheda di sicurezza		257.83 KB