Magnesium potassium sulfate

Other sources of by-product HCl include allyl chloride, chlorobenzenes, chlorinated paraffins, linear alkylbenzene, siHcone fluids and elastomers, magnesium, fluoropolymers, chlorotoluenes, benzyl chloride, potassium sulfate, and agricultural chemicals. 

Four minerals are the principal commercial sources of potash (Table 2). In all ores, sodium chloride is the principal soluble contaminant. Extraneous water-iasoluble material, eg, clay and siUca, is a significant contaminant ia some of the evaporates being mined from underground deposits. Some European potassium ores contain relatively large amounts of the mineral kieserite, MgS04-H2 0. It is recovered for captive use to produce potassium sulfate compounds or is marketed ia relatively pure form as a water-soluble magnesium fertilizer. 

Approximately 98% of the potassium recovered ia primary ore and natural brine refining operations is recovered as potassium chloride. The remaining 2% consists of potassium recovered from a variety of sources. Potassium produced from these sources occurs as potassium sulfate combiaed with magnesium sulfate. Prom a practical point of view, the basic raw material for ak of the potassium compounds discussed ia this article, except potassium tartrate, is potassium chloride. Physical properties of selected potassium compounds are Hsted ia Table 3, solubkities ia Table 4. 

Quantities of potassium sulfate produced and consumed as potassium magnesium sulfate [13826-56-7] K2S0-2MgS04, are omitted in the U.S. Department of the Interior reports as classified information. Consumption data for potassium compounds identified as other potassium salts imply that the amount of potassium magnesium sulfate consumed in the United States is about double that of K SO. This gap is expected to widen as soils become more depleted of natural magnesium- and sulfur-containing minerals. 

Kieserite is not present in U.S. potassium salt deposits in commercial quantities. Langbeinite is the predominant U.S. magnesium sulfate salt. The latter, a raw material for the production of potassium sulfate in New Mexico, reacts directiy with potassium chloride ... 

Great Salt Lake, Utah, is the largest terminal lake in the United States. From its brine, salt, elemental magnesium, magnesium chloride, sodium sulfate, and potassium sulfate ate produced. Other well-known terminal lakes ate Qinghai Lake in China, Tu2 Golu in Turkey, the Caspian Sea and Atal skoje in the states of the former Soviet Union, and Urmia in Iran. There ate thousands of small terminal lakes spread across most countries of the world. Most of these lakes contain sodium chloride, but many contain ions of magnesium, calcium, potassium, boron, lithium, sulfates, carbonates, and nitrates. 

A third source of brine is found underground. Underground brines ate primarily the result of ancient terminal lakes that have dried up and left brine entrained in their salt beds. These deposits may be completely underground or start at the surface. Some of these beds ate hundreds of meters thick. The salt bed at the Salat de Atacama in Chile is over 300 m thick. Its bed is impregnated with brine that is being pumped to solar ponds and serves as feedstock to produce lithium chloride, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride. Seades Lake in California is a similar ancient terminal lake. Brine from its deposit is processed to recover soda ash, borax, sodium sulfate, potassium chloride, and potassium sulfate. 

In order to balance mineral intake, the following minerals were used in place of the usual mineral mix (% of diet) potassium chloride, 0.32 magnesium oxide, 0.084 manganous carbonate, 0.0123 ferric nitrate, 0.021 zinc carbonate, 0.0056 cupric carbonate, 0.0011 potassium iodate, 0.0004 sodium selenite, 0.00003 chromium potassium sulfate, 0.00193. 

The scaling tendency of the lime or limestone processes for flue gas desulfurization is highly dependent upon the supersaturation ratios of calcium sulfate and calcium sulfite, particularly calcium sulfate. The supersaturation ratios cannot be measured directly. They are determined by measuring experimentally the molalities of dissolved sulfur dioxide, sulfate, carbon dioxide, chloride, sodium and potassium, calcium, magnesium, and pH. Then by calculation, the appropriate activities are determined, and the supersaturation ratio is determined. Using the method outlined in Section IV, the concentrations of all ions and ion-pairs can be readily determined. The search variables are the molalities of bisulfite, bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium, and sulfate ions. The objective function is defined from the mass balance expressions for dissolved sulfur dioxide, sulfate, carbon dioxide, calcium, and magnesium. This equation is... 

Potassium and sodium sulfates and their double sulfates with calcium and magnesium occur naturally in various salt lakes. Potassium sulfate also occurs in certain volcanic lava. Its double salt with magnesium occurs in nature, as the mineral langbeinite. 

Potassium sulfate is used in fertilizers as a source of potassium and sulfur, both of which are essential elements for plant growth. Either in simple form or as a double salt with magnesium sulfate, potassium sulfate is one of the most widely consumed potassium salts in agricultural apphcations. It is preferred over potassium chloride for certain types of crops such as, tobacco, citrus, and other chloride—sensitive crops. Some other applications include making gypsum cements to make potassium alum in the analysis of Kjeldahl nitrogen and in medicine. 

Potassium sulfate is separated from the more soluble magnesium chloride by crystallization. 

The NADP analyzes the constituents important in precipitation chemistry, including those affecting rainfall acidity and those that may have ecological effects. The Netwoik measures sulfate, nitrate, hydrogen ion (measure of acidity), ammonia, chloride, and base cations (calcium, magnesium. potassium). To ensure comparability of results, laboratory analyses for all samples are conducted by the NADP s Central Analytical Lab at the Illinois State Water Survey, A new subnetwork of the NADP, the Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) measures mercury in precipitation. 

Contents chromium potassium sulfate dodecahydrate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, dextran sulfate, formamide, phosphate salt, magnesium sulfate, pepsin, polyethylene glycol, and Triton. It has a low toxicity and is irritating to the eyes and skin. It is a colorless, nonviscous liquid. 

Potassium sulfate provides an example of such behavior. When it crystallizes from an aqueous solution above 40° C, the crystals are anhydrous K2SO4, while below 40° C each molecule of K2SO4 that crystallizes has 10 molecules of water associated with it. The hydrated salt, K2SO4-10H2O(s), is called potassium sulfate decahydrate. Another solute that forms hydrated salts is magnesium sulfate, which can incorporate differing amounts of water depending upon the temperature at which crystallization occurs (see Table I). 

The name potash derives from an early production method in which potassium carbonate, leached from wood ashes, was crystallized by evaporating the leachate in large iron pots. The salt potassium chloride (muriate of potash or KC1) is now the major source of the element (95%) other important salts are potassium sulfate (sulfate of potash, K2S04), potassium magnesium sulfates of varying K/Mg ratios, and potassium nitrate (KN03). 

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