Glutraldehyde
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Glutaraldehyde is an organic compound. Glutaraldehyde is used to disinfect medical, dental equipment, industrial water treatment and as a chemical preservative.
Glutaraldehyde is a chemical frequently used as a disinfectant and sterilizing agent against bacteria and viruses (2% solution), an embalming fluid and tissue fixative, a component of leather tanning solutions, and an intermediate in the production of certain sealants, resins, dyes, and electrical products.
Characteristics:
Pungent colorless oily liquid. Soluble in water and alcohol.
Physical Properties Of Glutaraldehyde:
Property 50% 100%
Freezing point -21°C -14°C
Boiling point 101oC 188oC
Density (water = 1) 1.13 0.72
Vapour density n.a. 4.1 g/L
Relative density (air = 1) n.a. 3.4
Vapour pressure (20°C) 2.03 Pa –
pH mildly acid n.a.
Refractive index 1.421 1.4338
(at 25°C, 589 nm)
N.A. Not applicable.
Chemical Properties Of Glutaraldehyde:
Solubility Soluble in all proportions in water and ethanol; soluble in benzene and ether.
Hydrolysis Stability decreases with increasing pH. 3
pH 5, half-life 508 days.
pH 7, half-life 102 days.
pH 9, half-life 46 days
Uses:
- Cold disinfectant in the health care industry
- Biocide in water treatment
- Hardener in x-ray film processing
- In tanning as a fixative
- In animal housing for disinfection
- As a biocide in aquaculture
- As an embalming agent
- In small quantities as a disinfectant for air ducts.
- As a tissue fixative in electron and light microscopy and in histochemistry.
- As a biocide in aquaculture.
- In small quantities as an embalming agent. and
- As a therapeutic agent.
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