Benefits of Potassium Nitrate

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Food Industry

Potassium Nitrate is used as a preservative to keep meat coloration fresh. Potassium Nitrate reacts with red blood cells and helps to give salted meat, fish, Chinese sausage, other sausages, bacon, pickled fish and fermented pork an attractive red color. And potassium nitrate has properties capable of preventing growth of multiple types of bacteria, especially clostridium botulinum, which is capable of creating highly hazardous botulin that is usually found in food stored in sealed containers such as canned food and ready-made food contained in ordinary sealed cans. Because of the aforementioned reasons, the Food and Drug Administration permits the use of potassium nitrate in food products only in specified amounts.

**The Thai Ministry of Public Health has prescribed that potassium nitrate be used in food in amounts not to exceed 500 milligrams (0.5 grams) per kilogram of food.**


Fireworks/Firecrackers/Caps/Rocket Industry

Potassium Nitrate is used as a component of black powder which has three main components consisting of sulfur, coal and potassium nitrate. Potassium Nitrate functions as an oxidizer for igniting fireworks, rockets and caps.


Gold Industry

Potassium Nitrate is used to reduce gold’s melting temperature, making gold easy to melt and enabling easy separation of excess materials from gold. Potassium Nitrate is usually used with borax to make gold solidify. Furthermore, potassium nitrate also helps gold glow and gives it an attractive appearance. Goldsmiths soak molded gold in solutions with potassium nitrate as the main component.


Other Benefits

1. Potassium Nitrate is used as a modifier in pesticides to increase pesticide content at cheaper prices to reduce costs for farmers.
2. Potassium Nitrate can be used as a stump remover by making stumps underground soft and easy to move (uses 1 – 3 months, depending on environmental conditions and stump size).
3. Potassium Nitrate is used to reduce temperature or as a coolant. When potassium nitrate is dissolved in water, a solution with lower temperature by 8 – 12 degrees will be obtained (depending on the amount of potassium nitrate dissolved in water).
4. Potassium Nitrate is used to make incense. Potassium Nitrate is a component mixed with incense to help prevent lit incense from going out.
5. Chemical Tempering (Chemtempering) Potassium Nitrate is used in mirror and lens production methods as a main component of solutions for increasing mirror and lens strength with chemical tempering (chemtempering).
6. Potassium Nitrate is used as a component in toothpaste to reduce dentin sensitivity.
7. Potassium Nitrate is used to help induce flowers blooming out of season such as mangoes and mangosteens, etc.
8. Potassium Nitrate is used as a component in traditional medicine formulas and herbal remedies.