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Potassium hydroxide

puriss., meets analytical specification of Ph. Eur., BP, 85-100.5%, pellets

Synonym(s):

Caustic potash

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Linear Formula:
KOH
CAS Number:
1310-58-3
Molecular Weight:
56.11
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
eCl@ss:
38100303
PubChem Substance ID:
329748189
EC Number:
215-181-3
NACRES:
NA.21
MDL number:
MFCD00003553

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Product Name

Potassium hydroxide, puriss., meets analytical specification of Ph. Eur., BP, 85-100.5%, pellets

SMILES string

[OH-].[K+]
[OH-].[K+]

InChI

1S/K.H2O/h;1H2/q+1;/p-1

InChI key

KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 719 °C)

grade

puriss.

assay

85-100.5%

form

pellets

quality

meets analytical specification of Ph. Eur., BP

impurities

residual solvents, complies
≤0.0005% heavy metals (as Pb)
≤0.0005% total nitrogen (N)
≤1% K2CO3

pH

~13.5 (25 °C, 5.6 g/L)

mp

361 °C (lit.)

anion traces

chloride (Cl-): ≤50 mg/kg
phosphate (PO43-): ≤10 mg/kg
silicate (as SiO2): ≤100 mg/kg
sulfate (SO42-): ≤20 mg/kg

cation traces

Al: ≤10 mg/kg
As: ≤3 mg/kg
Ca: ≤20 mg/kg
Fe: ≤10 mg/kg
Na: ≤1%

Quality Level

200

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General description

Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic compound commonly known as caustic potash. It is frequently used to neutralize acids and prepare potassium salts of reagents. Additionally, NaOH is also employed in a variety of large-scale applications.

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GHS05,GHS07

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Dam. 1 - Met. Corr. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A

Storage Class

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

Regulatory Information

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Yuewang Huang et al.
Optics express, 23(5), 6780-6786 (2015-04-04)
We demonstrate a novel technique to fabricate sub-micron silicon nitride waveguides using conventional contact lithography with MEMS-grade photomasks. Potassium hydroxide anisotropic etching of silicon facilitates line reduction and roughness smoothing and is key to the technique. The fabricated waveguides is
Saeid Baroutian et al.
Bioresource technology, 102(2), 1095-1102 (2010-10-05)
In this study, a novel continuous reactor has been developed to produce high quality methyl esters (biodiesel) from palm oil. A microporous TiO2/Al2O3 membrane was packed with potassium hydroxide catalyst supported on palm shell activated carbon. The central composite design
Kinetics of palm oil transesterification in a batch reactor.
Darnoko D and Cheryan M.
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 77(12), 1263-1267 (2000)
Rokas Drevinskas et al.
Optics express, 23(2), 1428-1437 (2015-04-04)
Surface texturing is demonstrated by the combination of wet etching and ultrafast laser nanostructuring of silica glass. Using potassium hydroxide (KOH) at room temperature as an etchant of laser modified glass, we show the polarization dependent linear increase in retardance
Aldol condensation in gaseous phase by zeolite catalysts.
Wierzchowski PT and Zatorski LW.
Catalysis Letters, 9(5-6), 411-414 (1991)
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