Potassium cyanide KCN manufacturers, suppliers, exporters, producers, in Visakhapatnam India.

Vizag chemical is one of the leading  Potassium cyanide  KCN manufacturers, suppliers, exporters, producers, in Visakhapatnam India. We are supplied into various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, Agriculture, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.

Potassium cyanide is a compound with the formula KCN. This colorless crystalline salt, similar in appearance to sugar, is highly soluble in water. Most KCN is used in gold mining, organic synthesis, and electroplating. Smaller applications include jewelry for chemical gilding and buffing.

Potassium cyanide is highly toxic. The moist solid emits small amounts of hydrogen cyanide due to hydrolysis, which smells like bitter almonds. Not everyone, however, can smell this; the ability to do so is a genetic trait.

The taste of potassium cyanide has been described as acrid and bitter, with a burning sensation similar to lye.

 KCN Applications

KCN and sodium cyanide (NaCN) are widely used in organic synthesis for the preparation of nitriles and carboxylic acids, particularly in the von Richter reaction. It also finds a use for the synthesis of hydantoins, which can be useful synthetic intermediates, when reacted with a carbonyl compound such as an aldehyde or ketone in the presence of ammonium carbonate.

KCN is used as a photographic fixer in the wet plate collodion process. The KCN dissolves silver where it has not been made insoluble by the developer. This reveals and stabilizes the image, making it no longer sensitive to light. Modern wet plate photographers may prefer less toxic fixers, often opting for the less toxic sodium thiosulfate, but KCN is still used.

Uses of Potassium Cyanide (KCN)

Potassium Cyanide is used in the extraction of silver and gold from ores.

It is used in the electroplating process.

Used as a reagent in analytical chemistry.

It is widely used in the preparation of carboxylic acids and nitriles.

It is used in the wet plate collodion process as a photographic fixer.
It is used in gold mining.

Used in warehouses.

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