Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic substance, mainly used as a fertilizer for a variety of soils and crops. But the long-term use of ammonium sulfate will make the soil acidification plate phenomenon, and the product has a certain degree of toxicity to the human body, so let's learn more about ammonium sulfate next!
Uses of Ammonium Sulfate
1. Ammonium sulfate is an excellent nitrogen fertilizer (commonly known as fertilizer powder), suitable for general soil and crops, can make branches and leaves grow vigorously, improve fruit quality and yield, enhance crop resistance to disasters, and can be used as basic fertilizer , Additional fertilizers and fertilizers mixed with seeds are applied at the same time.
2. Ammonium sulfate can undergo metathesis reaction with table salt to produce ammonium chloride and can react with aluminum sulfate to produce ammonium alum and can also be used together with boric acid to produce refractory materials.
3. Adding ammonium sulfate to the electroplating solution can increase the conductivity.
4. Ammonium sulfate is also a catalyst for food caramel, a nitrogen source for cultivating yeast in the production of fresh yeast, a dyeing aid for acid dyes, and a deliming agent for leather.
5. In addition, ammonium sulfate is also used in beer brewing, chemical reagents and battery production.
6. Another important role of ammonium sulfate is to mine rare earth resources, and ammonium sulfate is used as raw material during mining. The rare earth elements in the ore are exchanged by ion exchange, and then the leachate is collected and impurities are removed, precipitated, squeezed, and burned to form rare earth raw ore. It takes about 5 tons of ammonium sulfate to mine and produce 1 ton of rare earth raw ore.
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