Potassium Nitrate
Product Information
Potassium Nitrate is a powerful oxidizing agent (releases oxygen on heating) and is used in gunpowder and fertilizers.
Potassium Nitrate is used in the manufacture of various types of Glass, Explosive-Blasting powder, Slurry, Dynamite, Matches, Fertilizers, Heat Treatment & Heat transfer salts and Leather Processing Industries. Major uses of potassium nitrate are in fertilizers, rocket propellants, fireworks and also used in the process of food preservation as a common ingredient of salted meat since the Middle Ages.
| Particulars | PURE GRADE |
| Appearance | White crystalline |
| powderAssay (as KNO3) | 99.50 % min |
| K 2 O | 46.500 % min |
| Nitrogen | 13.800 % min |
| Sulphate (as SO 4 ) | 0.005 % max |
| Chloride (as Cl) | 0.005 % max |
| Iron (as Fe) | 0.001 % max |
| Heavy Metal (as Pb) | 0.0002 % max |