Potassium ferricyanide is the chemical compound with the formula K3[Fe(CN)6]. This bright red salt contains the octahedrally coordinated [Fe(CN)6]3- ion. It is soluble in water and its solution shows some green-yellow fluorescence. Potassium ferricyanide is used as an oxidizing agent to remove…

Dextran sulfate sodium salt, or DSS, is a synthetic sulfated branched polysaccharide derivative of dextran that has multiple uses in biomedical and clinical research. One important property of DSS is to trigger colitis in mice and rats when administered in drinking water. DSS binds to…

Potassium chloride is a widely used reagent in biochemistry and molecular biology. Potassium chloride is a salt commonly used in the preparation of phosphate buffered saline and for the extraction and solubilization of proteins. It is a good potassium source. Also used in the hypotonic…

Potassium 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. …

Calcium 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.

Benzalkonium 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…

Ferric Ammonium Citrate is supplemented to the growth media as a source of iron for the micro-organism to be analysed.

Anhydrous 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…

Lithium Bromide

Aluminum 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…

Sodium 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…

Sodium Perchlorate Monohydrate is used in standard DNA extraction and hybridization reactions in molecular biology.

Potassium Iodide is known as Potassium Salt of Hydriodic Acid [HI]. Its Ionic form is K+ I-, and iodide ion being mild reducing agent, it can be easily oxidized to Iodine by powerful oxidizing agent like chlorine. Potassium iodide is often used as a fluorescence quencher. The use of KI to…

Tin(II) chloride is used as a sensitizing agent in preparing glass and plastic for metalizing. It serves as a potent reducing agent. Other uses of stannous chloride are tin electroplating baths, corrosion inhibitors, polymers, thermoplastic elastomers, soldering flux, antioxidant, tanning agent and…

Calcium Phosphate is used in animal feeds, as a mineral supplement, as an antacid, in the manufacturing of glass, in dental products and in fertilizers. It has been used as a dietary supplement, and as an antacid.

Calcium phosphate tribasic uses include the manufacture of fertilizers, polishing and dental powders, porcelain and pottery, and enameling. It is also utilized to engineer new biomaterials for applications such as bone grafts and fillers.

Dextran sulfate is a polyanionic derivative of dextran produced by esterification of Dextran with chlorosulphonic acid. The sulfur content is approximately 17% which corresponds to an average of 1.9 sulfate groups per glucosyl residue of the dextran molecule. Dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) is the…

Copper(II) chloride catalyzes the chlorination in the production of vinyl chloride and dichloroethane.

Potassium bromide may be used for removal of peripheral membrane proteins. Potassium bromide is a chemical salt that has been used in a variety of applications such as spectroscopy, infrared transmission, as a laboratory reagent. Used as bromine source in greener bromination of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds.

D-Pantothenic acid is an essential vitamin (except in horses, ruminants). Pantothenic acid is involved in a number of biological reactions including: A precursor in the biosynthesis of coenzyme A, production of energy, catabolism of fatty acids and amino acids, synthesis of atty acids,…

Cesium chloride, an inorganic compound, is an important source of cesium ions in a variety of applications. Cesium chloride is typically used for density gradient work and for the purification of virus/phage, nucleic acids and nucleoproteins. It is used for the preparation of electrically…