Thiourea Dioxide (Formamidinesulfinic Acid)

Applications

Thiourea dioxide or thiox is an organosulfur compound that is used in the textile industry, photographic industry, leather processing industry and paper, pulp, and board industry. It functions as a reducing agent primarily used in the production of bleached recycled pulp. It’s utilized in Bleaching of stone ground-wood and pressurized ground-wood. It has been used as a photographic toning agent, in hair preparations, as a dry cleaning agent, in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and insecticides, in boiler water treatment, and as a reagent for bismuth and selenite ions.