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Chemical differences
« on: September 06, 2008, 01:21:55 PM »
What is the differences between technical grade, food grade, and commercial grade sodium sulfite.
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Re: Chemical differences
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2008, 01:48:17 PM »
As far as I know these terms are not exactly defined and can mean different things in different places. Generally speaking they refer to the substance purity.
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Re: Chemical differences
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2008, 10:16:45 PM »
What is the differences between technical grade, food grade, and commercial grade sodium sulfite. So is commercial grade stronger than food grade?
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Re: Chemical differences
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2008, 03:35:08 AM »
Not necesarilly.

There is no simple answer to your question, repeating it won't help.

30 seconds of Googling yields this page:

http://yarchive.net/chem/chemical_grades.html
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