Name: Potassium Hydroxide

English name: Potassium hydroxide

Other names: Caustic Potash, Caustic Soda, Potash Ash, Caustic soda Caustic potash Potassa

Chemical formula: KOH

Molecular weight: 56.1

CAS Registry Number: 1310-58-3

EINECS accession number: 215-181-3

Melting point: 380°C

Boiling point: 1324 ℃

Water solubility: easily soluble

Closeness: 2.044 g/cm3

External view: white powder or flake solid

Application: drying, electroplating, chemical raw materials, etc.

Safety description: strong alkaline and corrosive, moderately toxic

Hazard symbol: U+2620, C

Dangerous goods transportation number: UN 1813 8/PG 2

MDL number: MFCD00003553

RTECS number: TT2100000

PubChem number: 24898721

Application field

1. Used for electroplating, carving, lithography, etc.

2. Used as raw material for potassium salt production, such as potassium permanganate, potassium carbonate, etc.

3. In the pharmaceutical industry, it is used to produce potassium borohydride, spironolactone, salanol, testosterone propionate, progesterone, vanillin, etc.

4. Used in the light industry to produce potassium soap, alkaline storage batteries, cosmetics (such as cold cream, cream and shampoo).

5. In the dye industry, it is used to produce vat dyes, such as vat blue RSN.

6. Used as analytical reagent, saponification reagent, carbon dioxide and moisture absorbent.

7. In the textile industry, it is used for printing and dyeing, bleaching and mercerizing, and is used in large quantities as the main raw material for the manufacture of man-made fibers and polyester fibers, and also for the manufacture of melamine dyes.

8. It is also used in metallurgical heating agent and leather degreasing.