Properties: easily soluble in water; prominent chelating ability to calcium, magnesium and other metal irons; softening hard water; alkalescent; noncorrosive; being an inorganic surface active agent; strong emulsifying action to lubricating oil and fat
Purposes: Mainly used as one of the main auxiliaries for synthetic detergent, synergist for soap; water softener, tanning agent for leather making, auxiliary for dyeing; As an effective dispersion agent for suspension solutions of painting, kaolin, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate and drilling mud etc.; As an oil contamination resistance agent in paper production. In foodstuff industry it is used as quality improver in the process of canned food, fruit juice drinks, foodstuffs from milk or soybeans. It may tender the meat in canned ham and soften the skin of horse bean in canned horse bean. It may also serves as a softener or densifier in foodstuff industry.