Potassium bifluoride supplier in chennai india

Ennore india chemicals Potassium bifluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula KHF2. This colourless salt consists of the potassium cation and the bifluoride (HF2−) anion. 

The salt is used in etchant for glass. Sodium bifluoride is related and is also of commercial use as an etchant as well as in cleaning products.

Synthesis and reactions

The salt was prepared by Edmond Frémy who decomposed it to generate, for the first time, hydrogen fluoride. Potassium bifluoride is prepared by treating potassium carbonate or potassium hydroxide with hydrofluoric acid:

uses

Most potassium bifluoride is used in industrial applications and processes. Potassium bifluoride is used as an abrasive, as a metal pretreatment before further processing, as a wood preservative and as a chemical intermediate.

Industry Uses
Intermediates
Processing aids, not otherwise listed.

Product Uses

Potassium bifluoride is used as an abrasive, as a pretreatment of metals before they are furtherprocessed, as a wood preservative and as a chemical intermediate.
Solvay Fluorides, LLC does not sell potassium bifluoride directly for consumer use. Somepotassium bifluoride may be used in consumer products for etching glass or for cleaning ceramics.