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Ammonium Sulfide Solution
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium sulfide solution (aqueous ammonium sulfide) is a 20% solution in water. Ammonium sulfide is an inorganic salt with a sulfurous odor, which is commonly used in the food industry as a flavoring agent. The influence of ammonium sulfide treatment on (100)GaAs (gallium arsenide) surfaces has…
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Sodium Chloride
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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Potassium Ferricyanide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium 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…
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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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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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Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate
MP BiomedicalsComponent 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
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Calcium Chloride Dihydrate
MP BiomedicalsCalcium 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.
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Ammonium Acetate
MP BiomedicalsAmmonium 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.
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Potassium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsPotassium 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…
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Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate
MP BiomedicalsMagnesium 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…
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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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Potassium Iodide
MP BiomedicalsPotassium 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…
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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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Potassium Phosphate Dibasic
MP BiomedicalsPotassium 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…
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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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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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Potassium Chloride
MP BiomedicalsPotassium 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 KCl-propidium iodide protocol for univariate analysis of metaphase chromosomes; dissociation of…
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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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Magnesium Sulfate
MP BiomedicalsMagnesium sulfate is used in chemistry and molecular biology as a source of magnesium ions. Magnesium has a variety of biological roles in enzymology, cell membrane and wall structural integrity, muscle cell physiology, and nucleic acid structure. Magnesium is an essential co-factor in many…
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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…
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Potassium Acetate
MP BiomedicalsPotassium acetate is used as a buffer in molecular biology research, notably in the isolation of DNA. Potassium acetate may be utilized in the isolation of RNA intermediates and products from in vitro splicing reactions performed with HeLa cell nuclear extract. Potassium acetate has been used to…
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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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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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Sodium Metabisulfite
MP BiomedicalsSodium 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…
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Dextran Sulfate Sodium Salt, Colitis Grade
MP BiomedicalsDextran 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…
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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 Chloride
MP BiomedicalsFerric chloride is a moderately strong Lewis acid. Ferric Chloride is used in photoengraving, photography, the manufacture of pigments and ink, the chlorination of silver and copper ores, and as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles. It is also utilized in the synthesis of organic compounds.…
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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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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…