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Utilizing Borax in Water Treatment
Borax is most readily recognizable as a household detergent, but this chemical distributed by Bell Chem, a water treatment chemical supplier, is also a great component in water treatment. Borax, with the chemical formula of Na2B4O7 . 10H2O, may also be called sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, disodium tetraborate, or sodium tetraborate decahydrate. Borax and boric acid are related but different boron compounds. Borax is a natural mineral mined from underground deposits or collected from evaporation deposits aboveground. Once this mineral is processed, the purified chemical is boric acid. In other words, borax is a mineral salt of boric acid.
Heat-exchange devices in wastewater treatment plants are notorious for metal corrosion, which is an extremely common problem in the presence of oxygen. When borax is added in the presence of oxygen, a chemical reaction stimulates the formation of ferric oxide film. This important film forms a protective, passive layer along the interior of pipes, which repels oxygen molecules from corroding the pipes’ metals.
Borax acts as a buffer to keep acidic chemicals from destroying metals and other important surfaces within wastewater treatment plants. When borax works with other inhibitors, their combined abilities outweigh how well they work individually. Working in conjunction, two or more chemicals and borax greatly decrease the amount of damage incurred by low-pH products.
Heat transfer decreases when metals corrode, so borax is able to maintain pipe environments, which gives pipes a longer, more useful service life.
Borates act similarly to water softeners, removing most of the insoluble minerals calcium and magnesium from water samples. Customers receiving “soft” water appreciate how their dishes and clothes appear cleaner, and their skin and hair feel softer and better maintained. Household appliances that utilize water, much like the wastewater treatment plants, last longer when their supply consists of soft water rather than water containing dissolved minerals.
Borax is often used as a surfactant (a cleanser) and effectively controls slime.
Bell Chem is a water treatment chemical supplier with hundreds of products, including a fine array of water treatment chemicals, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Tricalcium Phosphate in the Food Industry
Tricalcium phosphate is a virtually insoluble calcium salt of phosphoric acid. These properties make it ideal for many uses within the food industry, and because tricalcium phosphate is sourced from a mineral, it is considered vegan-friendly and allowed for use in organic products in the U.S. Bell Chem, a food and reagent product supplier, has compiled a short list of tricalcium phosphate’s most widely known uses.
Anti-Caking
Tricalcium phosphate’s insolubility plays a vital role when it is an ingredient in dry cake and biscuit mixes, dry soups, powdered drink mixes, and any other food or drink mixture where flowability is necessary. Physically, tricalcium phosphate is a chalky, fine, white powder that can absorb 10% of its overall mass in moisture. Because moisture causes mixes to clump, this water absorption feature keeps mixes flowing freely.
Buffering Agent
Many fermented or canned items, such as jellies, wines, and condiments, have a naturally low pH. Tricalcium phosphate acts as a pH regulator, or buffer, to bring the pH to a more basic level. Acids have a strong flavor; the addition of tricalcium phosphate decreases that flavor, giving foods a more enjoyable taste.Clouding AgentReduced-fat foods often have a distinct mouthfeel that most people do not enjoy. As a clouding agent, tricalcium phosphate adds opacity while it smooths out lumps with its anti-caking properties. The result is a much more robust gravy or soy milk, for instance with a more robust viscosity we recognize as fatty.
Supplement
Calcium is an important mineral that strengthens bones. It bonds readily with other minerals, such as phosphates, to stabilize the molecule and deliver both minerals to the body. Phosphorus plays an active role in cell signaling and energy production throughout the body as well as in nucleic acids, the building blocks of DNA. Added to juice, cereal, or milk, tricalcium phosphate is likely to be the ingredient in these and other “high in calcium” products. Calcium is often paired with Vitamin D (such as in milk and other dairy products) since Vitamin D enhances the absorption of calcium.
Bell Chem is a food and reagent product supplier with hundreds of products, such as tricalcium phosphate, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Boric Acid
Boric acid is recognized by myriad names, such as hydrogen borate, boracic acid, acidum boricum, and orthoboric boric acid. Its functions are even more numerous than its aliases. Boric acid appears as a hydrophilic, white, odorless, and basically flavorless powder or colorless crystals. Combining the elements of hydrogen, oxygen, and boron, boric acid is naturally occurring in almost every fruit variety. Several significant examples of water treatment product and chemical supplier Bell Chem’s pure boric acid’s uses are listed below.
Antiseptic
Boric acid has been used for centuries as an antiseptic for minor burns and cuts; it also serves as an acne treatment because of this property. Boric acid is a fungicide and has been frequently administered for athlete’s foot or other fungal infections.
Fiberglass
Boric acid’s main industrial role is in the production of fiberglass. It decreases the melting point of fiberglass as it strengthens the fibers. Textile fiberglass, such as that used in skis and circuit boards, also rely on boric acid. Along the same lines, boric acid also strengthens glass used in cooking, laboratories, fluorescent tubes, fiber optics, and LCD monitors and screens; this product is known as borosilicate glass.
Flame Retardant
Adding boric acid to insulation, mattresses, furniture, gypsum board, plastics, and textiles either during the manufacturing process or as a coating gives these products more resistance to extreme temperatures by reducing the release of combustible gases.
Insecticides
Many products controlling ant, cockroach, flea, and termite infestation contain boric acid for its insecticidal properties. Boric acid disrupts the electrolytic metabolic functions of insects and abrades their exoskeletons by acting as a desiccant. Because it is sticky, boric acid adheres to one insect’s exoskeleton and is easily transmitted to all other insects it contacts.
Lubricant
Ceramics and metals that demand direct contact with other products with minimal friction rely on boric acid to help these surfaces glide past each other more easily.
Pool Care
Swimming pools have a narrow pH range in order to maintain clear, odor-free water. Boric acid acts as a pH buffer to keep water homeostatically constant and often replaces chlorine as a less caustic chemical.
Bell Chem is a water treatment product and chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including boric acid. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Liquid Aluminum Sulfate
When water pours from a faucet, customers anticipate a clear, odorless, colorless liquid with no noticeable taste. Bell Chem, a water treatment product and chemical supplier, is recommended to bring water closer to what is regarded as potable water.
Liquid aluminum sulfate removes phosphorus, total organic carbon, biochemical oxygen demand, and suspended solids. It also buffers water by negating its charge and bringing it closer to a neutral pH of 7. As it flocculates small, floating particles of phosphorus, the heavier precipitate filters to the base of the container to be filtered out, a process known as sedimentation. The remaining water is less turbid and significantly clearer.
In a similar manner, liquid aluminum sulfate benefits freshwater lakes and ponds as it flocculates phosphates and other nutrients necessary for the growth of algae. When algae no longer have a source of food, the rate of algal blooms is greatly reduced.
The acidic component of chicken litter falls significantly with the addition of liquid aluminum sulfate in poultry houses. The resulting odor is much less pungent.
In paper mills, liquid aluminum sulfate stabilizes the pH of the water bath, controls the pitch, removes impurities, and catalyzes rosin sizing.
In dye production, liquid aluminum sulfate acts as a mordant as it fixes dyes to both hard and soft surfaces.
Other interesting uses of liquid aluminum sulfate include foam in fire extinguishers, baking soda, the production of soap and deodorants, in fertilizer as a soil additive, and in the manufacture of major league baseball covers, giving the ball a tough, durable hide.
Bell Chem is a water treatment product and chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Applications of Ammonium Chloride FCC
Ammonium chloride is a white or colorless crystalline salt or white granular powder. It is odorless and has a bitter, salty taste. Food grade ammonium chloride has multiple uses in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, animal nutrition, and cosmetics industries. Read below to learn how personal care raw material supplier Bell Chem’s ammonium chloride is utilized in these industries and more.
Pharmaceutical
While ammonium chloride is renowned for its role in fertilizers, food-grade ammonium chloride has specific applications in products used and consumed by humans. As a positively charged salt, the body recognizes its function as a catalyst for cell excitability.
In the respiratory system, ammonium chloride irritates the bronchial mucosa, causing an expectorant response. Therefore, it is often added to cough medicines.
During a metabolic crisis, ammonium chloride’s low pH makes it a perfect choice to return the body to homeostasis. Induced orally, ammonium chloride is given to diagnose renal tubular acidosis, to treat a number of urinary tract infections, and to acidify urine.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics and personal care products often contain ammonium chloride because it absorbs moisture. This makes products more viscous and the lather the products produce is likewise thicker.
Labels of shampoos and conditioners, bath salts and oils, body and facial washes and cleansers, and hair dyes and bleaches often tout ammonium chloride as an ingredient.
Food and Beverage
Foods and beverages take full advantage of ammonium chloride’s moisture absorption properties, adding it during many different steps in the processing of varied products.
Yeast and microorganisms need a source of nutrition, and ammonium chloride meets that need. Added to breads, ammonium chloride stabilizes the pH and strengthens the crust as breads rise to new levels of deliciousness.
Beer cannot be processed without yeast, and ammonium chloride functions in much the same manner as it does in baking — feeding the yeast and leading to a more robust flavor.
Licorice's bitter flavor is due to the addition of ammonium chloride. This important chemical also flavors chewing gums and vodka.
Cattle also enjoy the flavor of ammonium chloride, which acts as a feed supplement.
Bell Chem is a personal care raw material supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including ammonium chloride FCC. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Industry Uses of Canola Oil
Canola oil is produced from the canola plant, whose name is derived from its point of origin (Canada) plus oil (ola), and has many high-profile health benefits. The plant’s seeds contain 44% oil, which is double the percentage of oil contained in soybean seeds. Bell Chem, an food ingredient distributor, provides high-quality, pure canola oil for its customers for the following uses.
Antistatic/Lubricant
Plastic wrap tends to cling to itself unless a barrier exists between layers. Canola oil fills that necessity, and works as well on paper wrapping. The same advantage exists in industrial machinery as well, with canola oil added between machine gears and other integral parts, acting as a lubricant.
Biofuel Feedstock (Biodiesel)
Canola oil performs favorably in cold weather where other biodiesels may freeze and produces 90% fewer greenhouse gases compared to fossil-driven diesel fuels. This industry is growing rapidly; canola oil currently represents 30% of the biodiesel market.
Cosmetics
Lip glosses and lipsticks, creams and lotions (including suntan lotion), toothpastes, soaps, and shampoos frequently contain canola oil as an ingredient to allow products to flow easily as the natural vitamin E in canola oil protects and repairs damaged cells.
Essential Oils
From massage oils to essential oils, a base of canola oil penetrates the body’s thick epidermis to allow potent oils to penetrate deeply.
Foods
Heart-healthy consumers value cholesterol-free canola oil for its high percentage of unsaturated fat; the polyunsaturated fats in canola oil are healthy omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Leading culinary masters enjoy cooking with light, clear, delicious canola oil. Its high-smoke point is advantageous when deep frying or cooking over extreme temperatures. Canola oil is a traditional ingredient in many salad dressings, shortenings and margarine, cooking sprays, coffee creamers and whiteners, and breads and crackers, to name a few.
Fertilizer
Golf courses sprayed with canola oil show significant overall growth and good health.
Pesticides
Many products designed to rid your home or yard from unwanted fungi, plants, or insects contain canola oil.
Bell Chem, an food ingredient distributor, is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products, such as canola oil, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Food-Grade SIPERNAT® 22
When powders clump during manufacturing, time and energy are lost cleaning machinery. A product such as food-grade SIPERNAT® 22 precipitated silica deters clumping, which keeps your industry running smoothly. Food ingredient distributor Bell Chem proudly carries SIPERNAT® 22 along with other grades of SIPERNAT® products. Read below to learn how food-grade SIPERNAT® 22 can help your company.
Powdered Ingredients
Imagine hundreds of consumers complaining about their packaged powdered food: one box of chocolate pudding contained only a small amount of sugar while another package purchased at the same time was virtually without chocolate powder because of the excess sugar. What happened? When powdered ingredients are combined, it is generally an automated process that disperses the exact amount into each individual container. If the amount added to the batch is not accurate, the product will differ in its taste, texture, smell, or mouthfeel. If it clings to the machinery, less product is released, and the result is not what was anticipated. Adding SIPERNAT® 22 to powdered ingredients keeps machines and customers content. Form a barrier of SIPERNAT® 22 by coating the inside of the spray tower when spray-drying ingredients. This greatly reduces caking and expedites cleaning times as it decreases poor flowability.
SIPERNAT® 22 absorbs water and oil from the surface of powdered goods, leaving them less sticky and caked. Even after a product is stored or transported, it remains smooth and dry.
Pharmaceutical
Consumers demand pharmaceutical products with specific dosages. SIPERNAT® 22 acts as a filler and carrier for active ingredients, such as vitamins and supplements, to ensure patients and livestock receive the correct dosage in every tablet or capsule.
Bell Chem is your food and pharmaceutical ingredient distributor based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products including SIPERNAT® 22 stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Applications of Dipropylene Glycol
Dipropylene glycol is a colorless, almost odorless liquid with low toxicity (hence its abundant use in cosmetics), and it has a high boiling point. Glycols, in general, are organic compounds beneath the alcohol umbrella of alcohols. However, your industrial chemical supplier Bell Chem’s dipropylene glycol finds uses beyond the cosmetics industry. Read below to discover how dipropylene glycol is utilized across a spectrum of industries.
As a Catalyst in Polymerization
Many monomers do not readily form bonds with other monomers or polymers. Dipropylene glycol stimulates monomers to form multi-dimensional structures with other monomers, forming lengthy chains called polymers. Strands of polymers form plastics such as polystyrene and organic structures such as DNA!
As a Solvent
With its low toxicity and ability to suspend particles uniformly without detriment to their chemical structure, dipropylene glycol is frequently used in cosmetics, skincare products, hair products, and perfumes. When a product’s solids are suspended uniformly, the resulting gel or solid contains a consistent product throughout. The boiling point of dipropylene glycol (446.9°F or 230.5C) significantly decreases a product’s evaporation rate.
As a Plasticizer/Dispersant
High-viscosity products are generally difficult to spread on the skin or hair. Dipropylene glycol reduces product viscosity, leading to shampoos and lotions that spread easily and evenly. The active ingredients in a highly viscous product are not readily absorbed through the skin. By thinning a medicated cream, these active ingredients are more easily absorbed through the integumentary system. The plastics industry takes full advantage of dipropylene glycol’s ability to increase fluidity (otherwise known as plasticity) of a product. Its major role is as an ingredient in the creation of polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as PVC.
As a Masking Agent/Fragrance Ingredient
Active ingredients are often associated with a “medicine” smell, which many people find unpleasant. Dipropylene glycol not only masks the smell, it oftentimes eliminates the odor, leaving it virtually fragrance-free.
Bell Chem is an industrial chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products, including dipropylene glycol, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Using Acetic Acid
Acetic acid is more commonly recognized as vinegar, although the two are not completely interchangeable. Vinegar is typically 5%-20% acetic acid diluted in water. The formal name for acetic acid is ethanoic acid, although industry prefers the moniker acetic acid. Acetic acid has been utilized for centuries in industries across the world, and industrial ingredient distributor Bell Chem stocks this important chemical for your business. Read below for a summary of how acetic acid can be beneficial for you.
Acetic acid has uses across the medical field:
Even diluted to a 1% concentration, acetic acid is a safe, extremely effective antibiotic agent. Hospitals utilize acetic acid to stop the spread of Enterococci, Streptococci, Staphylococci, and Pseudomonas bacteria.
Screening for cervical cancer is simplified with acetic acid. When swabbed on the cervix, if acetic acid turns white in a minute’s time, cancer is likely present.
Injecting acetic acid into malignant tumors has been a proven cancer treatment for over two centuries.
In hospital laboratories, acetic acid lyses red blood cells, clearing the path for technicians to examine the less numerous white blood cells.
Other industrial uses for acetic acid include the following:
Acetic acid is a main component (along with ethylene and oxygen) in the production of vinyl acetate monomer. The monomer is then polymerized in various formations to form the basis of many common adhesives and paints. Other substrates produced from acetic acid include vinegar, ester, and acetic anhydride.
Because it is an acid, acetic acid acts as a powerful descaling agent. Limescale builds up on metal surfaces when they contact hot water. Boilers, water heaters, and wastewater treatment facilities with an application of acetic acid to the metal find the solid limescale liquefies.
In the canning industry, preservation with acetic acid has a longstanding history. Other foods contain acetic acid for its flavor: salad dressings, ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. In baking, adding diluting acetic acid with baking soda creates an acid/base reaction that injects baked goods with gases so cakes and breads rise.
The cosmetic industry finds acetic acid works favorably as a pH adjuster.
In a chemical laboratory, acetic acid is used for purifying chemicals and as a solvent for chemical reactions.
Bell Chem is an industrial ingredient distributor based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products, including acetic acid, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Malic Acid in the Medical Industry
Malic acid is usually produced in the human body in quantities necessary to function properly. However, sometimes the body requires excess amounts of malic acid due to loss or lack of production. Bell Chem stocks this important supplement and wants you to know how malic acid is used in the medical industry.
Malic acid, also known as hydroxybutanedioic acid or malate, is produced and synthesized in large quantities by the human body in the metabolic conversion of carbohydrates into the energy the body needs to function. Malic acid is an active chemical in the formation of amino acids as well. All fruits and several vegetables contain malic acid, with apples scoring high on the list of malic acid content.
Topical Treatments
Because it is an alpha-hydroxy fruit acid, malic acid is used by pharmaceutical companies as an ingredient for topical products to help heal specific skin conditions. Acne, calluses, warts, and other skin disorders can be treated with the application of supplements containing malic acid. Malic acid also boosts the production of collagen, a protein responsible for giving skin its elasticity. Without collagen, the skin sags, which we interpret as wrinkles.
Supplements
Individuals who require calcium supplementation often find malic acid is an ingredient to their supplement. Added to liquid and solid calcium supplements, malic acid controls the pH while adding a pleasantly tart taste.
Salivary Glands
Chewing gum is recommended for those who do not produce enough saliva. Combined with saccharin, malic acid stimulates salivary glands. When added in conjunction with other acids, the amount of flavor lasts significantly longer, thereby helping the salivary glands continue to produce saliva.
Fibromyalgia
Individuals suffering from fibromyalgia may find in the near future that malic acid is an ingredient in their management of this lifelong disorder. Preliminary findings show a correlation between the use of malic acid and both the reduction of pain and increased energy levels. Because malic acid is a vital component of the Krebs cycle, a lack of malic acid stops the production of necessary energy from consumed carbohydrates. Many athletes have found malic acid to be a great supplement to enhance muscular performance.
Bell Chem is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products, including malic acid, stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.