Product code RXSOL-60-6605-300Category Lab Chemical

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Overview

POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE 40% WW SOLUTION

Product description

The corrosive properties of potassium hydroxide make it a useful ingredient in agents and preparations that clean and disinfect surfaces and materials that can themselves resist corrosion by KOH. KOH is also used for semiconductor chip fabrication (for example anisotropic wet etching).

Applications

Potassium Hydroxide is an odorless, white or slightly yellow, flakey or lumpy solid dissolved in a DI water to get Potassium Hydroxide solution. It is used in making soap, as an electrolyte in alkaline batteries and in electroplating, lithography, and paint and varnish removers.
 
 

Dosage

Potassium hydroxide (KOH) is an alkali that penetrates and destroys the skin by dissolving the keratin. It causes an irritant reaction in the skin, dependent upon concentration used and to which body region it is applied.

Also known as

POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE 40% WW SOLUTION

Notes

Potassium hydroxide rapidly absorbs carbon dioxide and water from the air and deliquesces. 1 Potassium hydroxide solutions should be stored in plastic bottles (polyethylene or polypropylene). KOH solutions will etch glass over a period of just a few days.

Where we supply

Oman. Stocked at our warehouse in Barka, South Al Batinah, and supplied to Muscat, Ruwi, Mutrah, Seeb, Rusayl, Barka, Sohar, Shinas, Saham, Buraimi, Nizwa, Ibri, Sur, Salalah, Duqm, Khasab and every other governorate.

Ports and free zones. Port Sultan Qaboos (Mutrah), Mina Al Fahal, Sohar Port and Freezone, Port of Salalah and Salalah Free Zone, Port of Duqm and the Duqm Special Economic Zone, Port of Sur, Khasab Port and Al Mazunah Free Zone.

Industrial areas. Rusayl, Sohar, Barka (Sanaya), Raysut (Salalah), Nizwa, Sur, Buraimi and Duqm industrial estates, Knowledge Oasis Muscat, and oil and gas sites across Oman.

Beyond Oman. We have branches in the UAE (including Fujairah) and in India (Kandla, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Mumbai), and we also supply to South Africa.