Audited Supplier
KA150
9002-18-0
Nutritional
BRC, ISO, FDA, HACCP
Paper
Normal
>12 Months
White Powder
Milk White/ Light Yellow
Meat, Drinks, Flour Products, Condiment, Jelly/Ice
KAPPTAI
Pallet
China
13023100
Product Description
Product Information
Agar or Agar-agar is a product extracted from algae of the Gelidium and Gracilaria. It is the most commonly used curing agent for microbial culture medium. It is also used in canned meat, fish, poultry, cosmetics, drugs, and dental medicine. It is used as a clarifier in the brewing and wine industry, a thickener in making ice cream, pastry, and salad seasonings, a lubricant for metal wire drawing, etc.
Agar is used:
- As an impression material in dentistry.
- As a medium to precisely orient the tissue specimen and secure it by agar pre-embedding (especially useful for small endoscopy biopsy specimens) for histopathology processing[35]
- To make salt bridges and gel plugs for use in electrochemistry.
- In formicariums as a transparent substitute for sand and a source of nutrition.
- As a natural ingredient in forming modeling clay for young children to play with.
- As an allowed biofertilizer component in organic farming.[36]
- As a substrate for precipitin reactions in immunology.
- At different times as a substitute for gelatin in photographic emulsions, arrowroot in preparing silver paper and as a substitute for fish glue in resist etching.[37]
- As an MRI elastic gel phantom to mimic tissue mechanical properties in Magnetic Resonance Elastography[3
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