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  Sodium Citrate increase or decrease the pH

  Posted by abdullah on October 20, 2020 at 4:26 am

  Citric acid decrease the pH.
  What does Sodium Citrate do? Increase the pH or decrease it?

  pharma replied 3 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 6 Replies

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  pharma

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  October 20, 2020 at 7:30 am

  Trisodium citrate is alkaline, it will increase pH.

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  abdullah

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  October 20, 2020 at 8:32 am

  @Pharma what about di and mono sodium citrate? 
  Which one is better to increase the pH of products? 

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  pharma

  Member

  October 20, 2020 at 8:52 am

  Monosodium citrate is acidic, disodium citrate is slightly acidic. Meaning only trisodium citrate will increase pH (obviously, this depends on the starting pH).

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  abdullah

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  October 20, 2020 at 10:53 am

  @Pharma up to what number would trisodium citrate rise the pH? 

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  pharma

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  October 20, 2020 at 11:55 am

  Around 7.5-9 at most, depends on what else is in your product and how much you add.

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  abdullah

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  October 21, 2020 at 1:48 am

  @Pharma thanks a lot 

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