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Potassium Alum
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Product Code: RXSOL-19-6027-025

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Product Description

Potash Alum, also known as potassium aluminum sulfate, is a chemical compound with the formula (KAl(SO4)2.12H2O). It's a type of alum that's commonly used in medicine, water purification, and other applications.

Product Short Description

Potash Alum, also known as potassium aluminum sulfate.

Product Application

Potassium alum is commonly used in water purification, Leather Tanning, Dyeing, Fireproof Textiles, and Baking Powder.

Product Dose

Potash alum is a chemical compound widely used as the potassium sulfate dodecahydrate. It is double salt that is used commonly in medicine and the water treatment process. Potash alum is also known as potassium alum or potassium aluminium sulfate. The chemical formula of potash alum is K2SO4.Al2(SO4)3.24H2O. It is also commonly referred to as ‘fitkari.’

Product Note

Agricultural Application : Potash Alum also used to balance pHof SOIL. When Soil is ALKALINE, then use approx 1 Kg Fitkari Diluted solution per Acre basis. NEVER use Fitkari for ACIDIC SOIL and Neutral pH soil. Fitkari, also known as alum, is used in agriculture to improve soil fertility, plant health, and crop production. It can also be used as a pesticide to kill insects and treat fungal and bacterial infections.

Soil fertility
Fitkari can improve soil structure, pH, and nutrient availability.

Plant health
Fitkari can help plants absorb nutrients, strengthen cell structure, and promote robust growth.

Pesticides

Fitkari can be be used as a pesticide to kill insects like aphids, cabbageworms, and cutworms.
Fungal and bacterial infections
Fitkari's antiseptic properties can help protect plants from fungal and bacterial infections

Industrial area

Uses of Potash Alum

Fire Retardant
 
The use of potassium alum for textiles, wood and paperless flame resistance is a fire-retardant.
 
Tanning
 
For leather tanning, potassium alum is used to extract moisture from the hide and avoid rotting. Alum is not covered and can be washed out, as compared to tannic acid.
 
Iron and Steel Dissolving
 
This aluminium solution has the property that steels are dissolved without affecting aluminium or base metals. For machined castings of steel parts of machinery, alum solutions can be used.
 
Gourmet Food
 
Potassium alum may be an acidic component in baking powder to provide a second leavening step at high temperatures (although sodium alum is more widely used for this purpose). Bakers in England made bread whiter with alum during the 1800s.
 
Used for Dyeing
 
Alum was used to form a permanent link between natural textile fibres like wool and dye, as mordant.
 
Pigmentation of the Lake
 
Aluminium hydroxide from alum acts as a base for most lake pigments.
 
Blocking Chemicals
 
Since remote antiquity, potassium alum was used for purifying turbid liquids. The drinking water and industrial water systems, effluent treatment, and post-storm lake procedures continue to be commonly used for the treatment of pollutants in precipitation.
 
Water is applied to the domestic wastewaters roughly 30 to 40 ppm of alum, but more commonly to the industrial wastewater to clump negative particles into the flocs and float them up to the liquid bottom, or more conveniently filter them out of liquid before further filtration and disinfection of the water.

Other Equivalent Brand

Potassium Aluminum Sulfate, Fitkari

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