Other Names
Potassium Sodium Tartrate

Description
A colorless to blue-white orthorhombic crystalline salt with a saline, cooling taste. It is also called Seignette salt after Pierre Seignette, an apothecary of La Rochelle, France, who was the first to make it (c.1675).

Properties
- - has specific gravity 1.79 - melts at about 75°C - It is soluble in water and slightly soluble in alcohol - Chemically it is potassium sodium tartrate KNa (C4H4O6)·4H2O - exhibits double refraction.

Directions for use
It is used in medicine as a mild purgative, often in the form of Seidlitz powders. It is an ingredient of Fehling's solution.

Hazard Warning
See MSDS

Dosage
None

Packaging
25 kg bag, 50 kg drum