Sodium nitrate

1. Physical State: Solid

Color: white

Odor: Odorless

pH: 5.5-8.0 (5% aq. solution)

Vapor Pressure: Not available.

Viscosity: Not available.

Boiling Point: 380 deg C (dec)

Freezing/Melting Point: 306 deg C

Decomposition Temperature: 380 deg C

Solubility in water: Soluble.

Specific Gravity/Density: 2.2600g/cm3

2. Chemical Stability: Stable under normal temperatures and pressures.

3. Harmful if swallowed. Irritating to eyes, respiratory system and skin. Contact with combustible material may cause fire.Hygroscopic (absorbs moisture from the air).

 

4.Conditions to Avoid:

Dust generation, excess heat, exposure to moist air or water.

Incompatibilities with Other Materials:

Reducing agents, finely powdered metals, organic materials, combustible materials, easily oxidizable materials.

5. Hazardous Decomposition Products: Oxides of nitrogen, oxygen.

6. Hazardous Polymerization: Will not occur.

7. Usage:

Be a kind of common industrial material used in chemical fertilizers, plastics and explosives.

Be fluxing agent, oxidant and to make the enamel powder materials in Enamel industry.

Be decoloring agent, antifoaming agent, clarifying agent and Oxidative flux in glass industry.

Be decoloring agent in the manufacture of molten caustic soda and material for other nitrates.

Be always adopted in traditional meat product manufacture as Color Fixatives in food industry.

Be fertilizers in fertilizers industry.

Be material in making dyestuff and picric acid in dyeing industry.

Be heat treatment agent in metal manufacture.

 

 

Sodium Nitrate Specification