Properties | White crystalline or colorless glassy crystals, strong moisture absorption, soluble in water, glycerol, slowly dissolved in methanol, can form a concentration of 13-16% of the solution, the aqueous solution was weakly alkaline, insoluble and alcohol. |
Application | Sodium Borate has been mainly used in the manufacturing high quality glass, optical glass, glaze of pottery and porcelain, glaze of enamel, detergent, bleaching agent, cleaning agents, flame retardant, rust inhibitor and caking agent. It could be also used as the carrier of the lubricant used in metal wiredrawing, the stabilizer of refractory material and skeleton former, the coated fluxing agent in metallurgy, the retarder of cement and concrete, the buffer of pH value in water system and emulsifier of paraffin. |