Physical properties: colorless crystalloid or white crystalline powder; Odourless, cool and salty; Slightly deliquescent in moist air; Efflorescent in hot air; Soluble in water but insoluble in Ethanol. To decompose when heated and to lose cystal water at 150.
Usage: To be used as a flavor and stablizer in food industry, anticoagulant, reducer of phlegm and diuretic in pharmaceutical industry. Replacing Sodium Tripolyphosphate, it can act as an auxiliary of non-phosphous detergent. Applicable in fermentation, injection, film developing and electroplation.