Lab Reagent Ammonium persulfate (NH4)2S2O8 is a strong oxidizing agent.
Ammonium persulfate acts as a polymerization initiator in polymer chemistry, as an etchant and cleaner in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, as a booster in hair bleaching formulations in cosmetics and as a polymerization initiator, in soil stabilization and as a gel breaker in enhanced oil recovery systems.
AMMONIUM PERSULFATE is a white crystalline solid. A strong oxidizing agent. Does not burn readily, but may cause spontaneous ignition of organic materials. Used as a bleaching agent and as a food preservative.
Ammonium persulfate is a standard ingredient in hair bleach.
The most important application for Ammonium Persulfate is in the water-based emulsion polymerisation of organic monomers in aqueous systems. The monomers are either sufficiently soluble in water and precipitate during polymerisation or polymerisation takes place in an aqueous emulsion of the monomers, as with styrene-butadiene and Acrylonitrile.
Other applications of Ammonium Persulphate (APS)
Other Name : Ammonium persulfate
	7727-54-0
	Ammonium peroxydisulfate
	Diammonium peroxydisulfate
	Diammonium persulfate
	Diammonium peroxodisulphate
	Diammonium peroxydisulphate
Persulfate d'ammonium [French]
	PEROXYDISULFURIC ACID, DIAMMONIUM SALT
	EINECS 231-786-5
	UN1444
	Peroxydisulfuric acid (((HO)S(O)2)2O2), diammonium salt
	diazanium sulfonatooxy sulfate
	Persulfate d'ammonium
	Ammoniumpersulfat
	ammonium persuiphate
	Ammoniumperoxodisulfat
	Ammonium peroxodisulfate