Property:

White to yellow crystalline powder.

Usage:

1. Sodium nitrate is the raw material for the manufacture of potassium nitrate, mine explosives, picric acid, dyes, etc.

2. Nitrating agent for making dye intermediates.

3. The glass industry is used as a defoamer, decolorizing agent, clarifying agent and oxidation flux for the production of various glass and its products.

4. The enamel industry is used as oxidant and flux for the preparation of enamel powder.

5. The mechanical industry is used as a metal cleaning agent, and is also used to prepare black metal bluing agent.

6. Metallurgical industry used as steel and aluminum alloy heat treatment agent.

7. The light industry is used to make combustibles for cigarettes.

8. The pharmaceutical industry is used as a culture medium for penicillin.

9. The fertilizer industry is used as a quick-acting fertilizer suitable for acidic soil, especially

10. Used as corrosion inhibitor and desensitization agent in toothpaste to prevent dentin allergy.

11. Sodium nitrate is mainly used as corrosion inhibitor and boiler metal embrittlement inhibitor in the field of water treatment.