Water treatment aluminum potassium sulfate

One of aluminum potassium sulfate s major uses is in the dyeing of fibers and fabrics, where it is employed as a mordant. A mordant is a substance that reacts with a dye, helping it attach more permanently to a fiber or fabric. Aluminum potassium sulfate has also been used in the paper-making industry for many centuries, where it has a variety of applications. For example, it can he used to give paper a tough, shiny surface or to increase the intensity of inks, paints, and dyes used on the paper. Some water treatment plants also use aluminum potassium sulfate in their purification systems. The compound is added to water, where it combines with colloidal particles suspended in water to form larger clumps, which then settle out of the water. Other uses of aluminum potassium sulfate include ... 

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Important inorganic aluminum compounds are aluminum sulfate (e.g., for water treatment), potassium alum (KA1(S04)2-12H20 e.g., for tanning skins, mordants, coagulating agents, styptic pencils, cosmetics, and hardening and setting acceleration in the production of marble cement and alabaster plaster), sodium and barium aluminates (e.g., for water purification, acceleration of concrete solidification, production of synthetic zeolites, in the paper industry, and in the enamel industry), and the Friedel-Crafts catalyst aluminum chloride [4]. 

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