What is magnesium stearate

What is magnesium stearate?
Magnesium stearate, chemical formula for C36H70MgO4, molecular weight of 591.24, is an organic compound, is a white sand-free fine powder, unsafe contact with the skin.
Insoluble in water, ethanol or ether, mostly utilized as lube, anti-adhesion representative, circulation help.
Magnesium stearate is especially suitable for the granulation of oil as well as extract medicines, and the granules have excellent fluidness as well as compressibility.
Magnesium stearate is made use of as a flow aid in direct pressing.
Magnesium stearate can additionally be utilized as filter aids, clarifiers as well as frothing agents, along with suspending agents as well as thickeners for liquid preparations.

Prep work method of magnesium stearate
15 phr of magnesium sulfate was liquified in 150 phr of water, heated to 55 ℃, and also slowly contributed to the prepared sodium stearate solution, the re-decomposition response was executed under mixing, and the magnesium stearate was sped up as strong.
After the completion of the response, the clear fluid was separated, then cleaned with water, dehydrated by centrifugation and also dried at 80-85 ℃ to obtain the ended up product.

Application field of magnesium stearate
According to different application fields, magnesium stearate can be partitioned into food quality magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical quality magnesium stearate and commercial quality magnesium stearate; according to various dosage kinds of products, magnesium stearate can be partitioned into powdered magnesium stearate and flake magnesium stearate, among which powdered magnesium stearate is the mainstream item in the market.

Powdered magnesium stearate is frequently utilized as anti-caking representative and medicine launching representative in the areas of day-to-day chemical items, medicine as well as food. with the quick growth of downstream market, the market scale of powdered magnesium stearate will certainly remain to broaden.
1. Magnesium stearate is utilized as a warmth stabilizer for PVC, as well as resources for aesthetic flour, skin ointment and also medical tablets (forming representative, lube), for lubrication as well as transparency in wood powder, as well as for transparent smoothing representative in paint industry.
2. Commonly made use of in food, medication, paint, plastic, rubber, fabric and so on.
3. Magnesium stearate is a brand-new kind of medicinal excipient, which can be made use of as film covering product for solid prep work, thickener for colloidal fluid prep work, suspending representative and so on.
4. Used in cosmetics for powder products, can boost adhesion, lubricity, but also can be used as resources for pharmaceutical tablets.

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