What is magnesium stearate

What is magnesium stearate?
Magnesium stearate, chemical formula for C36H70MgO4, molecular weight of 591.24, is a natural substance, is a white sand-free penalty powder, unsafe call with the skin.
Insoluble in water, ethanol or ether, generally used as lubricant, anti-adhesion representative, flow aid.
Magnesium stearate is especially ideal for the granulation of oil and also essence drugs, and also the granules have excellent fluidness and also compressibility.
Magnesium stearate is utilized as a circulation aid in direct pressing.
Magnesium stearate can likewise be used as filter help, clarifiers as well as foaming representatives, along with suspending representatives and thickeners for fluid preparations.

Prep work method of magnesium stearate
15 phr of magnesium sulfate was liquified in 150 phr of water, warmed to 55 ℃, and also slowly contributed to the ready sodium stearate option, the re-decomposition reaction was accomplished under mixing, and also the magnesium stearate was precipitated as solid.
After the completion of the reaction, the clear fluid was divided, then cleaned with water, dehydrated by centrifugation and dried out at 80-85 ℃ to obtain the completed product.

Application field of magnesium stearate
According to different application areas, magnesium stearate can be partitioned into food grade magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical grade magnesium stearate and also commercial quality magnesium stearate; according to various dosage types of products, magnesium stearate can be subdivided into powdered magnesium stearate and flake magnesium stearate, amongst which powdered magnesium stearate is the mainstream item out there.

Powdered magnesium stearate is often utilized as anti-caking representative and drug releasing agent in the areas of day-to-day chemical products, medication and also food. with the fast growth of downstream market, the marketplace scale of powdered magnesium stearate will certainly remain to expand.
1. Magnesium stearate is utilized as a warmth stabilizer for PVC, as well as raw materials for aesthetic flour, skin ointment and medical tablets (forming agent, lubricant), for lubrication and transparency in wood powder, and for clear smoothing agent in paint industry.
2. Widely utilized in food, medicine, paint, plastic, rubber, textile and so forth.
3. Magnesium stearate is a brand-new type of medicinal excipient, which can be used as film coating product for strong prep work, thickener for colloidal fluid preparation, suspending representative and more.
4. Used in cosmetics for powder products, can boost attachment, lubricity, yet also can be made use of as resources for pharmaceutical tablets.

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