Citric acid

citric acid


Applications:

Used in food and beverage industry as sour agent, flavoring agent, preservative, and fresh-keeping agent.
It is also used as antioxidant, plasticizer and detergent in chemical industry, cosmetic industry and washing industry.


manual:

At room temperature, citric acid is colorless translucent crystals or white granules or white crystalline powder, odorless, very sour taste, slightly deliquescent in humid air. It can exist as an anhydrate or a monohydrate: when citric acid crystallizes from hot water, it forms the anhydrate; when it crystallizes in cold water, it forms the monohydrate. When heated to 78 °C, the monohydrate will decompose to give the anhydrate. At 15 degrees Celsius, citric acid can also be dissolved in absolute ethanol.