Physical & Chemical Description

Classification:Sulphate
Type:Sodium Sulfite
CAS No.:7775-14-6
Other Names:Sodium Dithionite / Sodium Hydrosulfite
MF:Na2S2O4
EINECS No.:231-890-0
General name: Sodium hydrosulphite
Molecular formula: Na2S2O4
Appearance:white free-flow crystal powders
Smell:flavourless or smell of sulfur dioxide
Packing:50kg net iron drums with double inner polybags.

Technical Specifications

INDEX	90%	88%	85%	FOOD ADDITIVE
Na₂S₂O₄	≥90%	≥88%	≥85%	≥85%
Fe	≤20ppm	≤20ppm	≤20ppm	≤20ppm
Zinc(Zn)	≤1ppm	≤1ppm	≤1ppm	≤1ppm
Other heavy metal (calculated as Pb)	≤1ppm	≤1ppm	≤1ppm	≤1ppm
Water Insolubles	≤0.05%	≤0.05%	≤0.05%	≤0.05%
Shelf Life(month)	12	12	12	12

Application

1. Widely used in textile industry for vat dyeing, reduction cleaning, printing and stripping, textile textilebleaching .
2. It is also used in bleaching paper pulps , especially mechanical pulps, it's the most fittable bleaching agent in pulps.
3. It is used in bleaching kaolin clay, fur bleaching and reductive whitening, bleaching of bamboo products and straw products,
4. It is used in mineral, the compound of thiourea and other sulphides.
5. It is used as reducing agent in chemical industry.
6. Sodium hydrosulfite food additive grade is used in foodstuffs, as bleaching agent and preservative dried fruits, dried vegetable, vermicelli, glucose, sugar, rock sugar, caramel, candy, liquid glucose, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and canned mushrooms.