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…

Choline 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,…

Ferrous 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…

Sodium Potassium Tartrate Tetrahydrate

Polyethylene 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…

Potassium 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…

Ammonium Molybdate Tetrahydrate is an analgesic.

Magnesium chloride hexahydrate (MgCl2·6H2O) is an inorganic salt that can be generated from the acid leach solution of magnesite tailings. It is a potential phase change material (PCM) for storing thermal energy in solar cookers. The result of altering poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) films with…

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…

Sodium metabisulfite is an antioxidant reducing agent, with antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Gastric tissue studies report that sodium metabisulfite can augment lipid peroxidation and apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Sodium metabisulfite is used as an active ingredient in campden…

Calcium chloride is useful in preparing competent bacteria. Calcium chloride dihydrate was used in the preparation of calcium-alginate beads. It was used to compose the medium for Thermophilic Clostridia (MTC). It may be used for the concentration of virus vectors in a protocol.

Sodium 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…

Sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous is a sodium salt of phosphoric acid. It is a white powder that is highly hygroscopic and water soluble. Sodium phosphate dibasic has been used for preparing phosphate buffer which in turn is utilized in X-gal staining. Sodium phosphate dibasic is an…

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…

Zinc 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…

Sodium metasilicate nonahydrate is white powder, mainly used in detergent/washing industry, metal cleaner and ceramic industry. In detergent/washing industry, it can be used instead of Sodium triphosphate to raise cleaning efficiency and reduce enviroment pollution, provide excellent alkaline…

Polyethylene 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…

Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic salt. Ammonium Sulfate may be used for the precipitation or fractionation of proteins or for purification of antibodies. Useful for crystallographic analysis of nucleic acids and proteins. The use of ammonium sulfate in long PCR buffer, in PCR lysis solution, and…

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 Phosphate Monobasic is mainly used in fertilizers, as acidulant in baking powders and in wheat flours, mineral supplement for foods and feeds, in enameling. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient and therefore is a common component of agricultural fertilizers. Calcium dihydrogen phosphate is…

Ammonium 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…

Sodium 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…

Sodium sulfide is used in the formation of surface functionalized cadmium sulfide quantum dots.

Component of Hanks′ balanced salt solution Component of plant cell-culture media and of culture media for microorganisms Purification of CAP, catabolite gene activator In the preparation of spheroplasts from E. coli K38

Potassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic and tribasic. Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. Potassium…

Used 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…

Sodium selenite is commonly used as a source of selenium in biological research, where selenium is an essential trace element that is normally provided by serum. Selenium is present in selenoproteins such as glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase, which contain the selenium analog of…

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…

Ammonium acetate is a widely used reagent in molecular biology and chromatography. Its applications include the purification and precipitation of DNA and protein crystallization. It is commonly used in HPLC and MS analysis of various compounds, such as oligosaccharides, proteins and peptides.

Sodium 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…

Carboxymethyl Cellulose Sodium Salt is a high viscosity carboxymethylcellulose (CMC); the viscosity of a 1% solution in water at 25 °C is 1300-2200 centipoise (cps). The viscosity is both concentration and temperature dependent. As the temperaure increases, the viscosity decreases. As the…