MP Biomedicals Lab & Chemical Salts
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Lithium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsUsed as an electrolyte for low temperature dry battery cells and as an oxidation catalyst. It is a solubilizer for polyamides and cellulose when used with amide solvents, and is a chlorinating agent for steroid substrates. Lithium chloride has also been utilized in: Large scale plasmid DNA…
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Benzalkonium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsBenzalkonium Chloride is a quaternary ammonium salt. It is a cationic surface active agent and germicide. It is not effective against gram-negative bacteria or picornaviruses and it is not recommended for treatment of sanitizing critical or semicritical medical instruments. It has been reported…
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Cesium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCesium chloride is used for the preparation of electrically conducting glasses. Used to make solutions for the separation of RNA and DNA, virus/phage by density gradient centrifugation.
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Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
MP BiomedicalsSDS is an anionic detergent and wetting agent that is effective in both acid and alkaline solutions. Applications SDS is an anionic detergent typically used to solubilize and denature proteins for PAGE-electrophoresis. SDS has also been used in large-scale phenol extraction of RNA to…
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Ferrous Sulfate Heptahydrate
MP BiomedicalsFerrous sulfate heptahydrate is a reagent used in the manufacturing of iron compounds, in electroplating baths, aluminium etching, process engraving and lithography, and in redox polymerisation. It is used as a reducing agent in chemical processes, leather dyes and writing inks. Also, it is a…
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Calcium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsAnhydrous Calcium Chloride is highly hygroscopic and is often used as a desiccant. Calcium plays important roles in many biological processes, including signal transduction, muscle contraction, maintenance of cell membranes and cell wall stability. Calcium chloride is a soluble compound that can…
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Lanthanum Chloride, Hydrated
MP BiomedicalsLanthanum chloride is used to precipitate phosphate from solutions. Lanthanum chloride is also used in biochemical research to block the activity of divalent cation channels, mainly calcium channels. Calcium channel blocker.
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Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate
MP BiomedicalsCalcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is a common laboratory and industrial chemical. Calcium sulfate is used in tile and plaster, polishing powders, paints, paper, dyeing and calico printing, metallurgy, drying industrial gases, solids, and many organic liquids, and in the determination of oxalates.
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Zinc Chloride
MP BiomedicalsZinc chloride is a widely used reagent in various industrial processes. These include textile finishing, the etching of metals, the manufacture of parchment paper, and the preparation of galvanizing, soldering, and tinning fluxes. Zinc chloride is also used in organic chemical synthesis, such as in…
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Potassium Ferrocyanide Trihydrate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium ferrocyanide trihydrate is a salt of the Fe(CN)64- ferrocyanide ion. Ferrocyanide is a reducing iron species, being oxidized from ferrous Fe(II) to ferric Fe(III). Potassium ferrocyanide is used to determine the concentration of potassium permanganate, a compound often used in…
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Sodium Bicarbonate
MP BiomedicalsSodium bicarbonate is broadly used as a physiological buffer in cell culture applications. The pKa for bicarbonate <-> carbonic acid reaction is 6.4 The pKa for bicarbonate <-> carbonate reaction is 10.3. Sodum bicarbonate has two pKas, 6.4 and 10.3. The compound can react with both…
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Ferric Ammonium Citrate
MP BiomedicalsFerric Ammonium Citrate is supplemented to the growth media as a source of iron for the micro-organism to be analysed.
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Sodium Phosphate, Dibasic, Heptahydrate
MP BiomedicalsSodium phosphate dibasic heptahydrate is a reagent with very high buffering capacity widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry and chromatography. Sodium phosphate dibasic is highly hygroscopic and water soluble. Useful in conjunction with Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic in the preparation of…
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Polyethylene Glycol
MP BiomedicalsPolyethylene glycol (PEG) is a condensation polymer of ethylene oxide and water. PEGs are susceptible to oxidative degradation in the presence of air. Minimizing the exposure of PEG to elevated temperatures and/or exposure to oxygen, or addition of an antioxidant can limit the amount of…
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Sodium Hydroxide
MP BiomedicalsA caustic reagent which is typically used to neutralize acids and prepare sodium salts of reagents. Sodium hydroxide is a common reagent for the adjustment of pH in buffers. Sodium hydroxide is used in Maxam-Gilbert DNA sequencing technique, in RNA gel blot procedure for simultaneous transfer…
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Sodium Perchlorate, Monohydrate
MP BiomedicalsSodium Perchlorate Monohydrate is used in standard DNA extraction and hybridization reactions in molecular biology.
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Aluminum Sulfate Hydrate
MP BiomedicalsAluminum sulfate hydrate is a hydrated aluminum salt. Aluminum sulfate is widely used in oil and fat processing, paper manufacturing and as a flocculant for water treatment. The kinetics of its dehydration by thermal decomposition has been investigated. It is one of the components of hematoxylin…
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Potassium Phosphate Monobasic
MP BiomedicalsPotassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic and tribasic (K3PO4). Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. …
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Ferric Chloride
MP BiomedicalsFerric chloride is a moderately strong Lewis acid and it is used as a catalyst in organic synthesis. The vapor-phase co-reductions with other metal halides by hydrogen results in finely divided intermetallics with applications as structural materials or compounds with useful thermoelectric,…
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Sodium Bicarbonate
MP BiomedicalsSodium bicarbonate is a commonly used laboratory chemical. The compound can react with both acids and bases, therefore it can be used as a neutralizer. When reacting with bases the compound forms carbonates. Sodium bicarbonate may be used to remove or wash acidic impurities from a crude liquid to…
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Ammonium Acetate, Ultra Pure
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium acetate is a chemical compound which is derived from the reaction of ammonia and acetic acid. Ammonium acetate is volatile at low pressures. Because of which it has been used to replace cell buffers with non-volatile salts, in preparing samples for mass spectrometry. It is used as a buffer…
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Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic, Monohydrate
MP BiomedicalsSodium phosphate is a reagent with very high buffering capacity that is widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry, and chromatography. Sodium phosphate occurs in several forms: monobasic (NaH2PO4), dibasic (Na2HPO4), and tribasic (Na3PO4). Most neutral sodium phosphate buffer solutions consist…
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Coenzyme A Trilithium Salt Dihydrate
MP BiomedicalsCoenzyme A is an essential cofactor in enzymatic acetyl transfer reactions. Facilitates removal of lipid peroxides by increasing mobilization of fatty acids Promote repair of plasma membranes by activating phospholipid synthesis The principal biologically active forms of pantothenic…
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Choline Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCholine chloride is an organic compound and a quaternary ammonium salt. It is a weak acid. Choline chloride is the salt of the naturally occurring choline, the pre-stage of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is important for mnemonic and thought-processes. Choline occurs naturally in fungi,…
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Potassium Iodide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium Iodide is known as Potassium Salt of Hydriodic Acid [HI], available in white crystalline powder form. It is a mild reducing agent and can be easily oxidized to Iodine by powerful oxidizing agent like chlorine. With elemental iodine it forms I3 (tri iodide), the salts of tri iodide are…
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Sodium Sulfide Nonahydrate
MP BiomedicalsSodium sulfide is used in the formation of surface functionalized cadmium sulfide quantum dots.
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Calcium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCalcium chloride (CaCl2) is inexpensive, easily available calcium salt with a wide range of applications. It is a key component in deicers as it melts snow and ice. Reports suggest that CaCl2 helps in retaining the firmness of fresh cut fruits and vegetables during storage. Calcium chloride may…
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N-(1-Naphthyl)Ethylene-Diamine Dihydrochloride
MP BiomedicalsN-(1-Naphthyl)ethylenediamine, dihydrochoride is used for colorimetric determination of sulfonamide in blood. It is used for spectrophotometric determiniation of nitrite and nitrate. It is also used as a coupling agent for the spectrophotometric determination of aminophenols, phenylenediamines,…
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Sodium Chloride, USP Grade
MP BiomedicalsSodium chloride is a commonly used chemical which is found widely in nature. It is considered to be an essential nutrient. Excess amounts of sodium chloride can destroy electrolyte balance and cause death in most animals, including humans. Sodium chloride is used in a wide variety of biochemical…
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Cesium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsCesium chloride , an inorganic compound, is an important source of cesium ions in a variety of applications. Its crystal structure forms a major structural type where each cesium ion is coordinated by 8 chlorine ions. Cesium chloride occurs naturally in mineral waters and as an impurity in…