Most hardware stores sell it. It is usually located in the paint department. Where I live it comes in a box that looks like a small milk carton. It's blue and kind of a teal colored box with T.S.P. in big letters.
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Be aware that actual TSP is hard to find. Hardware and paint stores stock a substitute product whose labeling tries to hide the substitution. You will see a very large TSP with a tiny asterisk and somewhere else on the box is the word Substitute. The reason for this is, aside from TSP's excellent cleaning properties, the phosphate component makes an excellent plant fertilizer. So much TSP was getting dumped into the environment, causing lakes and ponds to get clogged with algae and other plant life, that a general ban on the use of TSP as a cleaning product was issued.
Unfortunately, the TSP substitutes require health warnings as they are not as benign to humans as the original TSP was.
The compound with formula Na3PO4 is named "sodium phosphate", "trisodium phosphate", "sodium ortho-phosphate", or "trisodium ortho-phosphate".
Yes. Selleys Sugar Soap is the brand name for trisodium phosphate. However it is no longer available in Australia, it is only exported. Selleys sugar soap is now in liquid form only.
Trisodium phosphate turns oils and grease into soap through a process called saponification.
Yes.
When trisodium phosphate is dissolved in water, it produces a solution whose pH can be up to 12.5; as an acid is a chemical whose pH is below 7, trisodium phosphate cleaner doesn't contain any acid.
The compound with formula Na3PO4 is named "sodium phosphate", "trisodium phosphate", "sodium ortho-phosphate", or "trisodium ortho-phosphate".
Yes. Selleys Sugar Soap is the brand name for trisodium phosphate. However it is no longer available in Australia, it is only exported. Selleys sugar soap is now in liquid form only.
Trisodium phosphate can be purchased at almost any hardware store, paint store, or lumber yard. The Home Depot has a selection of trisodium phosphate, and is used as a degerent.
Trisodium phosphate turns oils and grease into soap through a process called saponification.
trisodium phosphate
Yes.
Trisodium Phosphate
When trisodium phosphate is dissolved in water, it produces a solution whose pH can be up to 12.5; as an acid is a chemical whose pH is below 7, trisodium phosphate cleaner doesn't contain any acid.
Na3PO4 It is more properly called trisodium phosphate.
None! Trisodium phosphate is the end produce of neutralizing phosphoric acid with sodium hydroxide. So, no further reaction is possible.
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Sodium phosphide