{"id":1,"date":"2021-08-09T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T09:25:40","slug":"potassium_bicarbonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/potassium_bicarbonate\/","title":{"rendered":"Potassium Bicarbonate as a Fire Extinguisher"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1\" class=\"elementor elementor-1\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a6d91e9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6a6d91e9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b2c999c\" data-id=\"1b2c999c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dfc2882 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2dfc2882\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Potassium bicarbonate (also known as potassium hydrogen carbonate or potassium acid carbonate) is a White Crystalline Powder, odourless, slightly basic, salty substance with a chemical formula of KHCO<sub>3<\/sub>. It is produced when carbon dioxide is passed through an aqueous solution of potassium carbonate<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">K<sub>2<\/sub>CO<sub>3<\/sub>\u00a0+ CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0+ H<sub>2<\/sub>O \u2192 2 KHCO<sub>3<\/sub><\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Potassium bicarbonate (298-14-6) has a variety of applications such as, as a fire extinguisher, in pharmaceuticals, in agriculture or mineral water. The focus of this blog is however on its role as a fire extinguisher. Potassium Bicarbonate is used as a Dry chemical powder in fire extinguishing agent for Class B and Class C type fires. Unlike its sodium counterpart, Potassium bicarbonate has much more of industrial application due to its effectiveness in decomposing at higher temperatures (between 212 and 392\u00a0\u00b0F) \u2013 which is prevalent in chemical fires. \u00a0Once it decomposes, potassium bicarbonate breaks down to form carbon dioxide.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 KHCO<sub>3<\/sub>\u00a0\u2192 K<sub>2<\/sub>CO<sub>3<\/sub>\u00a0+ CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0+ H<sub>2<\/sub>O<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carbon dioxide is non-flammable and does not support combustion. Since it is heavier than air, CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0has the ability to smother fire by covering it and preventing oxygen getting to it. Potassium bicarbonate is the main component of fire suppression agents such as Purple-K, Monnex and Super K due to its effectiveness in dealing with fires.<\/span><\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Chemical Properties:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CAS number:\u00a0298-14-6<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appearance: White Crystalline Powder<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Odor: Odorless<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Physical State: Solid (at room temperature)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Molecular Weight: 100.12<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Melting point: Decomposes at 292\u00baC<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Viral Alkalis Ltd is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of premium quality <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/potassium-bicarbonate\/\">Potassium Bicarbonate<\/a> (298-14-6) in India. We supply this product in 25 KG HDPE lined bags or as per customer requirement. Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/contact\/\">here<\/a><\/span> for inquiries.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potassium bicarbonate (also known as potassium hydrogen carbonate or potassium acid carbonate) is a White Crystalline Powder, odourless, slightly basic, salty substance with a chemical formula of KHCO3. It is produced when carbon dioxide is passed through an aqueous solution of potassium carbonate K2CO3\u00a0+ CO2\u00a0+ H2O \u2192 2 KHCO3 Potassium bicarbonate (298-14-6) has a variety &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/potassium_bicarbonate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potassium Bicarbonate as a Fire Extinguisher<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potassium-bicarbonate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralalkalis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}