Barium Chloride powder is a white crystalline powder composed of barium ions and chloride ions, which is easily soluble in water, toxic, and has many applications in the fields of chemical industry, metallurgy and medicine.
Properties
Molecular weight: 208.233
Appearance: usually white crystalline or granular powder.
Density: Relative density is about 3.86 (taking water as reference, water = 1)
Melting point: 960°C
Boiling point: 1560°C.
Solubility: Barium Chloride is readily soluble in water, with high solubility in water (e.g. 37.5g/100cc water at 26°C, 59g/100cc water at 100°C), but insoluble in acetone and ethanol, slightly soluble in acetic acid and sulphuric acid. Its solubility decreases significantly in the presence of ethanol and chloride ions (e.g. calcium chloride).
Flame reaction: appears green.
CHEMICAL REACTIVITY: It is a soluble compound that can react with carbonate or sulphate solutions to form barium carbonate and barium sulphate precipitates.
Characteristics of hydrate: Barium Chloride usually contains two crystalline water, and it will lose crystalline water and become white powder at 113℃.
Application
Industrial field:
Manufacture of barium salts: It is an important raw material for the production of other barium salts, which can be used to prepare barium hydroxide, barium nitrate, barium carbonate and so on. These barium salts have a wide range of applications in chemical, electronic and material industries, for example, barium carbonate can be used in ceramics, glass, enamel and other industries, barium nitrate is commonly used in the manufacture of fireworks, flares and so on.
Metal Processing: In mechanical industry, it can be used as heat treatment agent for metal quenching and other processing, which can improve the performance of metal and enhance its hardness, strength and toughness.
Electronic industry: In the manufacture of electronic instruments, barium chloride can be used in the production of certain electronic components or as auxiliary materials, for example, it may be used in some special electronic ceramic materials.
Water purification: It can react with sulfate and other impurity ions in water to generate precipitation, thus removing sulfate and other impurities in water and purifying water. It will be used in some industrial wastewater treatment and some water treatment process of waterworks.
Textile and leather industry: in the textile industry, it is a mordant for printing and dyeing, which can help the dyestuffs attach better to the fibres and improve the dyeing effect and colour fastness; in the leather industry, it can be used in the tanning of the leather, which can make the leather softer and more durable.
Analytical chemistry field:
Analytical reagent: it can be used in analytical chemistry to detect anions such as sulfate and selenate. When barium chloride solution is added, if sulfate ions are present, a white barium sulfate precipitate insoluble in acid will be generated, and the presence of sulfate ions can be detected qualitatively or quantitatively by observing the generation of the precipitate.
Chromatography: Used as an auxiliary reagent in certain chromatographic methods to help separate and detect different compounds.
Spot analysis for the determination of platinum: used in microanalysis for the determination of the element platinum.
Agriculture:
Insecticide and rodenticide: it can be used as an insecticide to prevent and control a variety of plant pests, with no adverse effects on crops; it can also be used to exterminate rats in the field, capable of destroying the nervous system and muscle function of pests and rats, so as to achieve the purpose of killing pests and exterminating rats.
Other fields:
Ceramic industry: In the production of ceramics, adding barium chloride in appropriate amount can improve the performance of ceramics, such as improving the density, hardness and corrosion resistance of ceramics.
Rayon matting agent: In the production process of rayon, adding barium chloride can reduce the gloss of rayon and make it have matting effect.
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