Barium Hydroxide

Barium hydroxide is mainly used in the petroleum industry additives and animal and plant oi refining, also used in the manufacture of barum salsynthetic rubber hardener, remove boiler scale, glass components, water softening and medicine, plastic Chemicalbook, glass, enamel and othelindustries. Barium hydroxide can also be used as a standard base for quantitaive analysis, determination of carbon dioxide content, etc. Bariumhydroxide should be stored in a sealed dry warehouse and not mixed with acids.Commercialy, barium hvdroxide is a precursor to other barum compounds. ts monohydrate can be used to dehydrate and remove sulfates from theproduct. t is used in analytical chemistry to titrate weak acids, especialy organic acids. t is also used to decarboxylate amino acids and release bariumcarbonate.