Potassium Fluoride

Applications

Potassium Fluoride is used as a flux additive in metallurgy and silver solder, as an additive in glass frosting products, in the manufacture of potassium metal, and in the heavy water industry. Potassium Fluoride is used in organic synthesis in preparation of various organic fluorides, it works as a fluorinating agent. It also is used in chemical manufacturing, like the manufacture of polyurethanes and alkyl benzenes, as a catalyst. Potassium Fluoride is also used in wood preservation, and in tin plating. It is also used in as a masking agent in complexometric titration of tantalum, and as a precipitator in extraction of tantalum from ore. It’s used a raw material in the manufacturing of potassium bifluoride. Potassium fluoride is used in metal finishing, batteries, coatings, and photographic chemicals.