What industry is bicarbonate mainly used in? What are its uses?
The glass industry is the consumer sector of baking soda, consuming 0.2 tons of soda per ton of glass. Chemical industry is used to make water glass, sodium dichromate, sodium nitrate, sodium fluoride, bicarbonate, borax, trisodium phosphate, etc. Metallurgical industry is used as smelting flux, flotation agent for beneficiation, and steelmaking and antimony smelting as desulfurizer. It is one of the important chemical raw materials. It is used for making chemicals, cleaning agents, detergents, photography and medicine. Most of them are used for industry, a small part for civil use. In the industrial use of soda ash, light industry, building materials and chemical industry account for about 2 / 3, followed by metallurgy, textile, petroleum, national defense, medicine and other industries. Glass industry is the consumption Department of soda ash, 0.2 tons per ton of glass. Chemical industry is used to make water glass, sodium dichromate, sodium nitrate, sodium fluoride, bicarbonate, borax, trisodium phosphate, etc. Metallurgical industry is used as smelting flux, flotation agent for beneficiation, and steelmaking and antimony smelting are used as desulfurizer. Printing and dyeing industry is used as soft water agent. Leather industry is used to degrease raw leather, neutralize chrome tanned leather and improve the alkalinity of chrome tanning liquid. It is also used to produce sodium tripolyphosphate and other sodium phosphate as synthetic detergent additive.
