Chemical Property of Methyl cellulose
Chemical Property:
- Appearance/Colour:white powder
- Vapor Pressure:6.67E-10mmHg at 25°C
- Melting Point:290-305 °C
- Refractive Index:1.469
- Boiling Point:507°C at 760 mmHg
- Flash Point:196.3°C
- PSA：147.68000
- Density:1.3g/cm³
- LogP:-0.37790
- Storage Temp.:Room Temperature
- Solubility.:Practically insoluble in hot water, in acetone, in anhydrous ethanol and in toluene. It dissolves in cold water giving a colloidal solution.
- Water Solubility.:SOLUBLE IN COLD WATER
- Purity/Quality:
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99%, *data from raw suppliers
Methyl cellulose
*data from reagent suppliers
Safty Information:
- Pictogram(s):
- Hazard Codes:
- Safety Statements:
24/25
- MSDS Files:
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SDS file from LookChem
Total 1 MSDS from other Authors
Useful:
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Uses
It can be used as thickeners; stabilizer; emulsifier; excipients; dispersant; binders; substitutes of film-forming agent hydrosol. It can also be used in mayonnaise, shortenings and some other foods. Because of that the materials can’t digested in the body, it can maintain several times amount of water, resulting in satiety; it can be used in crackers, waffles and other food for taking effect. For application, first 1/5 of the required amount of water for moistening the powder, together with cold water (necessary, to add ice) for mixing well. EEC: approved for using at frozen foam products, potato chips, soft drinks, special dietary foods, baked goods filling, the top material for foaming, sauces, and sauces.
It can also be used in mayonnaise, shortenings and some other foods.
Because of that the materials can’t digested in the body, it can maintain several times amount of water, resulting in satiety; it can be used in crackers, waffles and other food for taking effect.
For application, first 1/5 of the required amount of water for moistening the powder, together with cold water (necessary, to add ice) for mixing well. EEC: approved for using at frozen foam products, potato chips, soft drinks, special dietary foods, baked goods filling, the top material for foaming, sauces, and sauces.
The product is widely used in the architecture industry such as the mixture agent for cement, plaster, and clay seams. It can also be used as adhesive film-forming agent in cosmetics, medicine, and food industry; also can be used as sizing agents for spinning, and printing and dyeing, synthetic resin dispersing agent, paint film formers and thickeners. Methyl cellulose is a very stable material which is resistant to acid, alkalis, microorganisms, and heating. It can be excrete out from the human body without any change.
It is used for synthetic resin dispersing agent, film-forming agent of painting, thickener, binder materials, textile sizing agent, and the film-forming agent in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Methylcellulose is a gum composed of cellulose in which the meth-
oxyl groups replace the hydroxyl groups. it is soluble in cold water
but insoluble in hot water. solutions increase in viscosity upon
heating, gel at 50–55°c, and liquefy upon cooling. it is used in baked
goods for moisture retention, and in fruit pie fillings for the reduction
of water absorption into the pie crust during baking. it is also used
in breaded shrimp where it functions to form an oil barrier film. Thickener for aqueous and non-aqueous systems, clear films with grease resistance, binders, lubricants, steric stabilizer and water retention aid. As a substitute for water-soluble gums; to render paper greaseproof, in adhesives, as thickening agent in cosmetics, as protective colloid in emulsions, as binder and stabilizer in foods. As fat replacer in the formulation of dietetic foods. Pharmaceutic aid (suspending agent). Methyl cellulose is used as a thickener and an emulsifier in various food and cosmetic products; as a gel in advanced cookery and as a lubricant. It is also involved in the treatment of constipation. It acts as a buffer additive in capillary electrophoresis to control electoosmotic flow for improved separations. In paper and textile industries, it is used as a sizing, thereby protecting the fibers from water or oil.
