Magnesium Chloride is commonly used in different de-icing techniques across the northern parts of the country. But with so many people using it, it's important that we discuss the proper storage solution.
Magnesium Chloride is commonly used in different de-icing techniques across the northern parts of the country. But with so many people using it, it's important that we discuss the proper storage solution.
Magnesium chloride is often used on streets in areas of very low temperatures, with many of these locations being at higher altitudes, in the mountains, or uphill. Tanks are effective at storing magnesium chloride in very cold temperatures, but because of the location of the tank, there's another important factor to consider.
Any chemical spill that occurs runs a much higher risk of contaminating the natural resources around the tank, as well as all of those that might be at a lower altitude. To prevent any ecological harm, we suggest a 110% containment system, keeping your chemicals and your environment safe.
Magnesium chloride is an incredibly versatile compound with many health, agricultural, and industrial uses.
Human / Animal Health
When used in the right doses, magnesium chloride is a helpful mineral supplement for animals and humans alike. It is an essential electrolyte that powers electrical impulses in our heart, muscles, central nervous system, and more. It is commonly prescribed to treat magnesium deficiencies.
Plant Health
Magnesium chloride has developed a misunderstood reputation as being bad for the environment. However, when used in responsible amounts, it can actually be very beneficial to plant growth.
• Magnesium is at the heart of every chlorophyll molecule that allows plants to photosynthesize.
• Chlorine is an essential nutrient for plants that helps open and close stomata (pores in the leaves that lets oxygen out and carbon dioxide in).
When too much magnesium chloride enters the soil, it can prevent plants from absorbing the other nutrients they need.
Deicing / Freeze Point Depression
Magnesium Chloride is a highly soluble salt that can be extracted from seawater or brine. The substance is used in soil stabilization, wind erosion mitigation, and dust control, but is most well-known for its role in deicing. Magnesium Chloride is used to de-ice highways, parking lots, and sidewalks by helping to prevent the ice from bonding to the surfaces.
Magnesium chloride is used in three ways for pavement ice control: Anti-icing, when maintenance professionals spread it onto roads before a snowstorm to prevent snow from sticking and ice from forming; pre-wetting, which means a liquid formulation of magnesium chloride is sprayed directly onto salt as it is being spread onto roadway pavement, wetting the salt so that it sticks to the road; and pre-treating, when magnesium chloride and salt are mixed together before they are loaded onto trucks and spread onto paved roads.
Zhonghong provides Magnesium Chloride EP USP BP FCC Grade. Contact us if you need them!