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Specifications
- Pack type:Plastic bottle
- Description:Agar from red alga Rhodophyceae
- Size:500 g
- Form:Powder
- Solubility:Agar is strongly hydrophilic and can slowly absorb about 20 times its weight of cold water, swelling in the process. Hot water is usually necessary to solubilize agar. Insoluble in alcohols.
- Cat. No.:IC10026290
- pH:7.0 - 7.6
- Supplier no.:10026290
Specifications
About this item
Agar is a polysaccharide complex extracted by bleaching and hot water treatment of agarocytes from the red alga Rhodophyceae.
- Appearance: Pale yellow powder
- Foreign activity: Foreign organic matter ≤1.0%; foreign insoluble matter ≤1.0%
- Total ash ≤6.5% (dry weight basis); acid insoluble ash ≤0.5%
Agar is typically used in substitute for gelatin, isinglass, and also in making emulsions including photographic, gels in cosmetics, and as thickening agent in foods especially confectionaries and dairy products, in meat canning, in production of medicinal encapsulations and ointments, as dental impression mold base, as corrosion inhibitor, sizing for silks and paper, in the dyeing and printing of fabrics and textiles, in adhesives and in nutrient media for bacterial cultures.