Usage areas of Sodium hexametaphosphate

Sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) is a hexamer of the compound (NaPO3) 6. Commercial sodium hexametaphosphate is typically a mixture of polymeric metaphosphates of which the hexamer is a and is the compound often referred to by this name. More precisely, it is called sodium polymetasphate.

Usage areas

• SHMP is used as a sequestrant and has applications in a wide variety of industries, including as a food additive used under E number E452i. Sometimes sodium carbonate is added to SHMP to raise the pH to 8.0-8.6, which produces a number of SHMP products used for water softening and detergents.
• An important use for sodium hexametaphosphate is as a dissolving agent in the manufacture of clay-based ceramic particles.
• It is also used as a dispersant to break up clay and other soil types for soil texture assessment.
• It is used as an anti-staining and anti-tartar ingredient as an active ingredient in toothpastes.
• It takes the hardness of the water. By softening the water, it provides better wetting of the dust in the environment.
• It prevents the formation of unwanted salts and cations in the soap or detergent industry.
• Artificial maple syrup, canned milk, cheese powder and dips, imitation cheese, whipped tray, packaged egg whites, steak, fish fillet, fruit jelly, frozen desserts, salad dressing, herring, breakfast cereal, ice cream, beer and bottled beverages, other Besides foods, it may contain sodium hexametaphosphate.

(SHMP) is a dry powder dispersion agent mixed into soil hydrometer solutions to prevent clay platelets from sticking together in the sedimentation solution. Required in hydrometer analysis of soils to determine silt and clay fractions.