Product name: Calcium Alginate

CAS: 9005-35-0

Molecular weight:1170.93

Description:Calcium alginate is a water-insoluble, gelatinous, cream coloured substance that can be created through the addition of aqueous calcium chloride to aqueous sodium alginate. Adding artificial flavours and colours creates a more tasty edible slime. Calcium alginate is also used for entrapment of enzymes and forming artificial seeds in plant tissue culture.

"Alginate" is the term usually used for the salts of alginic acid, but it can also refer to all the derivatives of alginic acid and alginic acid itself; in some publications the term "algin" is used instead of alginate. Alginate is present in the cell walls of brown algae as the calcium, magnesium and sodium salts of alginic acid.

Uses of calcium alginate are:

in plant tissue culture to produce insoluble artificial seeds

for immobilizing enzymes by entrapment

to produce an edible substance

incorporated into wound dressings (alginate dressings) as a hemostatic