White solid
Aluminum sulfate is a widely used industrial reagents, often confused with the alum. Alum is aluminum sulfate and potassium sulfate double salt, and aluminum sulfate is a single salt. Double salt, also known as double salt, composed of two or more single salt, the salt solution is a single ionized ions.
Aluminum sulfate is often used as flocculants for water purification and sewage treatment equipment were also used in paper making industry.
Under natural conditions, little to no aluminum sulfate salt form. It will form a hydrate, aluminum sulfate Sixteen is the most common.
Aluminum sulfate is also a very effective mollusks pesticides can kill the Spanish slug (Spanish slugs).
Aluminum sulfate for water purification and in textile dyeing and printing as a medium. Purification of water, it makes impurities coagulation, sedimentation and filtration easier.
When dissolved in a large number of neutral or slightly alkaline water, the resulting precipitation of aluminum hydroxide gel, Al (OH) 3. When dyeing fabric, aluminum hydroxide gel makes the dye more easily attached to the top of plant fiber.
Aluminum sulfate is also used to adjust the soil pH, because it hydrolyzed aluminum hydroxide, while producing a small amount of dilute solution of sulfuric acid