Sodium Ferrocyanide
Sodium Ferrocyanide
Sodium ferrocyanide is a sodium salt with a variety of applications. It is primarily used as an anti-caking agent in foods and road salt as well as in the production of colors.
13601‐19‐9
CAS #
Technical Data
Sodium Ferrocyanide is used primarily as ‘anti-caking agent’ for salt (Nacl)but is used in a wide variety of applications including in the production of Ferricyanides, blue pigments(Iron blues), blue print paper, flotation of ores, pickling of metals, polymerization catalyst, photograph fixing agent, electroplating, as a food additive, fermentation processes of fruit acids (citric acid, tartaric acid etc.), as a gelating agent for removal of heavy metal traces, and in pharmaceutical/chemical industry.
Production of downstream products
Electrochemicals
With its primary anti-caking function, the most broad use in volume is as an additive to road and food grade salt. When combined with iron, it converts to a deep blue pigment called Prussian blue. It is used as a stabilizer for the coating on welding rods. In the petroleum industry, it is used for removal of mercaptans.
Applications:
Analytical Chemistry
Blueprints
Case Hardening and Heat Treating Chemical Synthesis
Catalysis
Chemical Intermediates
Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Chemotherapy
Corrosion Inhibition
Desulfurization of Gas
Detergents
Dyeing of Textiles
Electrical Equipment
Electroplating
Mineral Dressing
Mirror Manufacture
Mortar
Pesticides
Petroleum
Photography
Pigments
Pickling of Steel
Rubber
Separation and Identification of Organic Bases Trace-Metal Removal
Chemical Formula: Na4[Fe(CN)6]
Other Names: Tetrasodium [hexacyanoferrate(II)], Yellow prussiate of soda (YPS), Tetrasodium hexacyanoferrate, Gelbnatron, Ferrocyannatrium, sodium hexacyanoferrate(II), Yellow blood salt, sodium ferrocyanide decahydrate
Category
Food, Industrial