What is magnesium stearate

What is magnesium stearate?
Magnesium stearate, chemical formula for C36H70MgO4, molecular weight of 591.24, is a natural compound, is a white sand-free fine powder, slippery call with the skin.
Insoluble in water, ethanol or ether, mainly made use of as lubricant, anti-adhesion agent, flow help.
Magnesium stearate is particularly suitable for the granulation of oil and remove drugs, and also the granules have excellent fluidness and compressibility.
Magnesium stearate is made use of as a flow aid in straight pressing.
Magnesium stearate can also be used as filter help, clarifiers and also lathering agents, in addition to suspending agents and also thickeners for liquid prep work.

Prep work method of magnesium stearate
15 phr of magnesium sulfate was dissolved in 150 phr of water, heated up to 55 ℃, and also slowly included in the ready sodium stearate service, the re-decomposition response was accomplished under stirring, and the magnesium stearate was precipitated as solid.
After the completion of the reaction, the clear liquid was divided, then cleaned with water, dried out by centrifugation and also dried at 80-85 ℃ to obtain the completed item.

Application field of magnesium stearate
According to various application fields, magnesium stearate can be subdivided right into food quality magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical quality magnesium stearate as well as commercial grade magnesium stearate; according to various dosage forms of products, magnesium stearate can be subdivided right into powdered magnesium stearate as well as flake magnesium stearate, among which powdered magnesium stearate is the mainstream item in the marketplace.

Powdered magnesium stearate is commonly utilized as anti-caking agent as well as medication releasing agent in the fields of everyday chemical items, medication as well as food. with the rapid growth of downstream market, the market scale of powdered magnesium stearate will remain to expand.
1. Magnesium stearate is used as a heat stabilizer for PVC, as well as raw materials for cosmetic flour, skin lotion as well as medical tablets (forming representative, lubricating substance), for lubrication as well as openness in timber powder, as well as for clear smoothing agent in paint market.
2. Commonly made use of in food, medicine, paint, plastic, rubber, fabric and more.
3. Magnesium stearate is a brand-new sort of medical excipient, which can be used as film covering product for solid prep work, thickener for colloidal liquid prep work, suspending representative and so on.
4. Utilized in cosmetics for powder items, can improve adhesion, lubricity, however also can be made use of as raw materials for pharmaceutical tablets.

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