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 fine powder, unsafe call with the skin.
Insoluble in water, ethanol or ether, mostly used as lubricating substance, anti-adhesion representative, circulation aid.
Magnesium stearate is especially suitable for the granulation of oil and extract medicines, and also the granules have great fluidness and compressibility.
Magnesium stearate is made use of as a circulation aid in direct pressing.
Magnesium stearate can likewise be used as filter help, clarifiers and foaming representatives, along with suspending agents as well as thickeners for liquid preparations.

Prep work technique of magnesium stearate
15 phr of magnesium sulfate was dissolved in 150 phr of water, heated to 55 ℃, as well as gradually included in the ready salt stearate option, the re-decomposition response was performed under stirring, and also the magnesium stearate was sped up as strong.
After the completion of the reaction, the clear liquid was separated, then cleaned with water, dried out by centrifugation and also dried at 80-85 ℃ to obtain the finished item.

Application area of magnesium stearate
According to various application fields, magnesium stearate can be subdivided right into food quality magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical grade magnesium stearate and also industrial quality magnesium stearate; according to various dosage forms of products, magnesium stearate can be partitioned into powdered magnesium stearate and also flake magnesium stearate, among which powdered magnesium stearate is the mainstream product on the market.

Powdered magnesium stearate is commonly utilized as anti-caking representative as well as drug launching representative in the fields of everyday chemical items, medicine and also food. with the fast development of downstream market, the marketplace scale of powdered magnesium stearate will certainly continue to broaden.
1. Magnesium stearate is utilized as a heat stabilizer for PVC, in addition to raw materials for aesthetic flour, skin lotion and clinical tablets (shaping agent, lubricant), for lubrication as well as transparency in wood powder, and also for transparent smoothing agent in paint sector.
2. Extensively made use of in food, medication, paint, plastic, rubber, textile and so on.
3. Magnesium stearate is a new sort of medical excipient, which can be utilized as movie coating product for solid prep work, thickener for colloidal fluid preparation, putting on hold agent and more.
4. Used in cosmetics for powder items, can improve adhesion, lubricity, but also can be made use of as resources for pharmaceutical tablets.

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