Chemical Formula：NaNO₃

Molecular Weight：84.99

CAS：7631-99-4

Shape：White to yellow crystalline powder

Use：Sodium nitrate is a raw material for manufacturing potassium nitrate, mining explosives, picric acid, dyes, etc.Nitrating agent for manufacturing dye intermediates.In the glass industry, it is used as defoaming agent, decolorizing agent, clarifying agent and oxidation flux in the production of various glass and its products.In the enamel industry, it is used as an oxidant and flux to prepare enamel powder.It is used as a metal cleaning agent in the machinery industry and is also used to prepare black metal bluing agents.In the metallurgical industry, it is used as a heat treatment agent for steelmaking and aluminum alloys.Used in light industry to make combustion accelerants for cigarettes.In the pharmaceutical industry, it is used as a culture medium for penicillin.In the chemical fertilizer industry, it is used as a quick-acting fertilizer suitable for acidic soil. It is also used as a decolorizing agent for molten caustic soda.High-purity analytical reagents, spectroscopic reagents, oxidants, and also used in dye synthesis and the manufacture of explosives and fireworks.It is used as a corrosion inhibitor and desensitizing agent in toothpaste. Sodium nitrate is mainly used as a corrosion inhibitor and inhibitor of boiler metal embrittlement in the field of water treatment.It is also widely used in other fields