FNAT is a maker of a wide range of products including a chemical known as sodium thiocyanate. This is a big and fancy word but, it is very important because it can do many useful things in our daily life. Now, let s look at some of the ways that this special chemical is used:
Helping to Color Fabrics:
Fabrics are materials that we use to create clothing, blankets, and various other items. At times, individuals like to make their fabrics vibrant and beautiful. It also contains sodium thiocyanate, which allows the colors to bind more strongly to the fabric. Sodium thiocyanate helps in fixing the colors so that when we dye the fabric, the colors don’t fade away that easily. That means even if you wash the fabric 1000 times it will still look bright and nice!
Cleaning and Shining Metals:
Metals such as copper and silver are usually bright, smooth. However, after a period of time, they are prone to get dirty or get scratches. In such events, individuals wish to clean to recover the shine of the metals. Sodium thiocyanate assists in this process. It does this by allowing special bits of the metal to recombine, polishing and smoothing the metal out again. This is important for jewelry, coins, and other metal things we wish to keep from tarnishing.
Getting Rubber from Plants:
So rubber is an extremely useful material, found in car tires, sports balls, and even shoes! But did you know that that rubber comes from plants? Rubber, it has to be extracted from the plant. So here’s where sodium thiocyanate can save the day. It also separates the rubber from the rest of the plant, allowing it to be more easily collected. Together with sodium thiocyanate that aids the rubber to bind correctly so that it doesn't fall apart once we know its value for several items.
Making Film for Photography and Assisting Medicine:
Do you like taking photos with a camera? It is used in the production of the film that is used in cameras. This is what aids the pictures showing up once one captures them. Amazing that a chemical can help you catch memories! Sodium thiocyanate has an important role in medicine too. It is used to improve how some medicines work, by letting them remain longer in our bodies. This is important so the medicine can work and help make us better.
Assisting Scientists in Building Things:
Researchers are eager to find new materials and discover new phenomena. Some of these are known as organic compounds: carbon-based materials that incorporate other elements. Sometimes, scientists aim to make new organic compounds with unique features. This is where sodium thiocyanate comes in, and helps them do this by making them easier to mix to create new things. This is vital for R and D across many fields, including medicine, technology, and materials science.
To summarize, sodium thiocyanate is a highly useful and versatile compound with numerous applications. FNAT is happy to be a small enrollment for products involving sodium thiocyanate such as colorful fabrics, glittering metallic things, rubber goods, life saving drugs and even film! So your eyes just opened up to all the varied applications of sodium thiocyanate that enrich our lives in such great good way, we hope so!