What is Magnesium Carbonate ?
Magnesium carbonate, MgC03, is a light, bulky white powder. It is used extensively in the manufacture of food products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and magnesium salts.
Magnesium carbonate is an anticaking agent and general purpose food additive. It is used as an alkali in sour cream, butter, and canned peas. It is used as an anticaking agent in table salt and dry mixes. It assists in providing clarity in algin gels and functions as a filler in dental impression materials.
Magnesium salts, heat insulation and refractory, rubber reinforcing agent, inks, glass, pharmaceuticals, dentifrice and cosmetics, free-running table salts, antacid, making magnesium citrate, filtering medium. In foods as drying agent, color retention agent, anticaking agent, carrier.