Sodium aluminium sulfate
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"Sodium alum" redirects here. For the mineral form, see Alum-(Na).
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Sodium aluminium sulfate, NaAl(SO4)2·12H2O or Na2SO4·Al2(SO4)3·24H2O, also known as soda alum or sodium alum, is a form of alum used in the acidity regulator of food (E521) as well as in the manufacture of baking powder. It is also a common mordant for the preparation of hematoxylin solutions for staining cell nuclei in histopathology.
The classical cubic alum structure is the dodecahydrate, which is known in mineralogy as alum-(Na).[3][4] Two other rare mineral forms are known: mendozite (undecahydrate)[5] and tamarugite (hexahydrate).[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 62nd ed.; Weast, Robert C., Ed.; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1981; p B-146. ISBN 0-8493-0462-8.
- ↑ Cromer, D. T.; Kay, M. I.; Larson, A. C. Refinement of the alum structures. II. X-ray and neutron diffraction of NaAl(SO4)2·12H2O, γ-alum. Acta Crystallogr. 1967, 22 (2), 182–87. DOI: 10.1107/S0365110X67000313.
- ↑ Burke, Ernst A.J. Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks. Mineralogical Record 2008, 39 (2), 131–35, <http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/tidyingupnames.pdf>.
- ↑ Alum-(Na), <http://webmineral.com/data/Alum-%28Na%29.shtml> (accessed 28 November 2009), WebMineral.com. Alum-(Na), <http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=3703> (accessed 28 November 2009), MinDat.org.
- ↑ Mendozite, <http://webmineral.com/data/Mendozite.shtml> (accessed 28 November 2009), WebMineral.com. Mendozite, <http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=2643> (accessed 28 November 2009), MinDat.org.
- ↑ Tamarugite, <http://www.webmineral.com/data/Tamarugite.shtml> (accessed 28 November 2009), WebMineral.com. Tamarugite, <http://www.mindat.org/show.php?id=3878> (accessed 28 November 2009), MinDat.org.
External links
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards 0024
- IPCS Environmental Health Criteria 194: Aluminium
- NLM Hazardous Substances Data Bank entry for Sodium alum
- FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) monograph: Aluminium (WHO Food Additives Series 24)
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