Potassium hydroxide
Potassium hydroxide is an alkali which in the food industry is called E525 additive.
Other 
often found names of potassium hydroxide are a hydroxide of potassium, the caustic potash, potassium leach, caustic heat, potassium hydrate, caustic potash, potassium hydroxide.
Use of potassium hydroxide as nutritional supplement is authorized in EU countries, in Russia, Ukraine.
Properties of potassium hydroxide
Externally potassium hydroxide represents crystal colourless sticks, balls, flakes.
E525 additive melts at a temperature of 404 °C, quickly absorbs moisture and therefore demands creation of special storage conditions, is dissolved in methanol, ethanol and water.
Potassium hydroxide can dissolve organic materials.
Receiving potassium hydroxide carry out by a solution electrolysis method chlorine potassium. Influence substance the polymeric, asbestos or mercury cathode. The last way is applied most often though the first two ways of receiving potassium hydroxide which are not using mercury are considered as safer.
E525 additive is considered the strong substance entering rough reaction with tin, aluminum, zinc, lead and acids.
The food industry uses such property of potassium hydroxide as ability to influence acidity of products. In fact, E525 additive is a regulator of acidity.
Potassium hydroxide use
If to take exclusively food industry in attention, then here, most often, E525 is used by producers of chocolate, cocoa and products from them.
In addition, potassium hydroxide can meet as a part of products of baby food, to them process the frozen potatoes.
Potassium leach 
can be used as supportive application on production of vegetable and fruit products – by means of substance peel fruit, vegetables and root crops.
In the cosmetic industry potassium hydroxide is applied to production of shampoos, by soaps, bleaches, means for shaving.
Harm of potassium hydroxide
Working at a factory with E525 additive it is impossible to forget that it is after all alkali which belongs to the second class of danger. The hydroxide of potassium can corrode skin and mucous, causing corrosive burns. Excess of potassium hydroxide, that is long contact with substance provokes emergence of chronic skin diseases.
On the production applying potassium hydroxide serious precautionary measures have to be taken. The contact of alkali with eyes of the person is especially dangerous – cases of total loss of sight are recorded.
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