- Description:
Product Name: Citric Acid Anhydrous
Executive Standards: BP2013/USP36/FCC8/E330/GB1987-2007
Molecular Weight: 192.12
- Characteristics:
Citric acid is an important organic acid, colorless crystals, often containing one molecule of water of crystallization, odorless, has a strong acidity, soluble in water.
- Technical Data:
| Item | Index |
| Characters | White Crystalline Powders,Colorless Crystals or Granules |
| Assay % | 99.5-100.5 |
| Water % | ≤ 0.5 |
| Light Transmittance % | ≥ 96 |
| Calcium (ppm) | ≤200 |
| Iron (ppm) | ≤5 |
| Arsenic (ppm) | ≤1 |
| Mercury (ppm) | ≤0.1 |
| Heavy Metals (ppm) | ≤1 |
| Oxalate (ppm) | ≤100 |
| Chloride (ppm) | ≤50 |
| Sulphate (ppm) | ≤150 |
| Readily Carbonisable Substances | ≤1.0 |
| Sulphated Ash % | ≤0.05 |
| Tridodecylamine (ppm) | ≤0.1 |
| Lead (ppm) | ≤0.5 |
| Aluminum (ppm) | ≤0.1 |
| Bacterial Endotoxins IU/mg | ＜0.5 |
| Water Insoluble Substances | Filtration time not more than 1 min; Filter membrane basically doesn’t change color; Visual mottled particles not more than 3. |
- Application：
Mainly used as acidulant,flavoring agent, preservative and antistaling agent in food and beverage industry.It is also used as antioxidant,plasticizer and detergent in chemical,cosmetics and cleaning industries.