What is magnesium stearate

What is magnesium stearate?
Magnesium stearate, chemical formula for C36H70MgO4, molecular weight of 591.24, is a natural compound, is a white sand-free fine powder, unsafe call with the skin.
Insoluble in water, ethanol or ether, mostly made use of as lubricant, anti-adhesion representative, flow aid.
Magnesium stearate is particularly appropriate for the granulation of oil and also extract drugs, and the granules have great fluidness and also compressibility.
Magnesium stearate is made use of as a circulation aid in direct pushing.
Magnesium stearate can also be used as filter aids, clarifiers and also foaming agents, as well as suspending representatives and also thickeners for liquid preparations.

Prep work technique of magnesium stearate
15 phr of magnesium sulfate was dissolved in 150 phr of water, heated up to 55 ℃, and also slowly added to the prepared sodium stearate service, the re-decomposition reaction was performed under mixing, and also the magnesium stearate was sped up as solid.
After the completion of the reaction, the clear liquid was separated, then washed with water, dehydrated by centrifugation as well as dried at 80-85 ℃ to obtain the completed item.

Application field of magnesium stearate
According to various application fields, magnesium stearate can be partitioned into food grade magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical grade magnesium stearate and also commercial quality magnesium stearate; according to different dose 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 in the market.

Powdered magnesium stearate is frequently utilized as anti-caking agent and drug launching agent in the fields of day-to-day chemical products, medicine as well as food. with the quick growth of downstream market, the market range of powdered magnesium stearate will continue to expand.
1. Magnesium stearate is utilized as a warmth stabilizer for PVC, along with basic materials for aesthetic flour, skin ointment and also medical tablet computers (forming representative, lube), for lubrication and also transparency in timber powder, as well as for clear smoothing agent in paint sector.
2. Extensively made use of in food, medicine, paint, plastic, rubber, textile and so on.
3. Magnesium stearate is a new sort of medicinal excipient, which can be used as movie coating product for solid preparation, thickener for colloidal fluid preparation, suspending agent and so forth.
4. Utilized in cosmetics for powder items, can boost adhesion, lubricity, but also can be utilized as basic materials for pharmaceutical tablets.

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