{"id":2790,"date":"2014-06-27T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:10:40","slug":"potassium-nitrite-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/potassium-nitrite-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Potassium Nitrite in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Potassium nitrite<\/b>\u00a0(distinct from\u00a0potassium nitrate) is the\u00a0inorganic compound\u00a0with the\u00a0chemical formula\u00a0KNO<sub>2<\/sub>. It is an\u00a0ionic salt\u00a0of\u00a0potassium\u00a0ions K<sup>+<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0nitrite\u00a0ions NO<sub>2<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>, which forms a white or slightly yellow, hygroscopic\u00a0crystalline\u00a0powder that is soluble in water.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potassium_nitrite#cite_note-1\"><br \/><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>It is a strong oxidizer and may accelerate the combustion of other materials. Like other\u00a0nitrite\u00a0salts such as\u00a0sodium nitrite, potassium nitrite is toxic if swallowed, and laboratory tests suggest that it may be mutagenic or teratogenic. Gloves and safety glasses are usually used when handling potassium nitrite.<\/p>\n<p>Potassium nitrite can be obtained by the reduction of\u00a0potassium nitrate. The production of potassium nitrite by absorption of nitrogen oxides in\u00a0potassium hydroxide\u00a0or\u00a0potassium carbonate\u00a0is not employed on a large scaled because of the high price of these alkalies. Furthermore, the fact that potassium nitrite is highly soluble in water makes the solid difficult to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Potassium nitrite is used in the manufacturing of , among others, heat transfer salts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27th June 2014. For more information, click on + on the right corner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gentrochema.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}