pentaerythrite Definition
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder used as a stabilizer for explosives, as a plasticizer for resins, and in medicine as a vasodilator.
Using pentaerythrite: Examples
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Pentaerythritol is used in the production of alkyd resins, fatty acid rosin and tall oil esters and to make paint and coatings, printing ink, coating adhesives, explosives, sealants, varnish, lacquer, vinyl chloride, synthetic rubber and miscellaneous including pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN).
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Pentaerythritol is also used as a drug to treat heart disease.
Summary: pentaerythrite in Brief
Pentaerythrite [pen-tuh-er-uh-thrahyt] is a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder used as a stabilizer for explosives, as a plasticizer for resins, and in medicine as a vasodilator. It is used in the production of alkyd resins, fatty acid rosin and tall oil esters and to make paint and coatings, printing ink, coating adhesives, explosives, sealants, varnish, lacquer, vinyl chloride, synthetic rubber and miscellaneous including pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN). Pentaerythritol is also used as a drug to treat heart disease.
