Gum tragacanth

Base Information

• Chemical Name: Gum tragacanth
• CAS No.: 9000-65-1
• Molecular Formula: NULL
• Molecular Weight: 840000
• Hs Code.: 29400000
• European Community (EC) Number: 232-552-5
• Mol file: 9000-65-1.mol

Synonyms:Gum Tragacanth;Tragacanth;Tragacanth, Gum

Chemical Property of Gum tragacanth

Chemical Property:

• Appearance/Colour: light beige powder
• PSA: 0.00000
• LogP: 0.00000
• Solubility.: H2O: soluble20mg/mL
• Water Solubility.: Slightly soluble in water.
• Hydrogen Bond Donor Count: 0
• Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count: 0
• Rotatable Bond Count: 0
• Exact Mass: 150.234750957
• Heavy Atom Count: 10
• Complexity: 0

Purity/Quality:

Gum tragacanth ^*data from reagent suppliers

Safty Information:

• Safety Statements: 22-24/25

MSDS Files:

Total 1 MSDS from other Authors

Useful:

• Chemical Classes: Biological Agents -> Vegetable Gums
• Canonical SMILES: CC.CC.CC.CC.CC
• Physical properties: As collected, tragacanth is white to weak yellow, translucent; horny in texture, having a short fracture. It is rendered more easily pulverizable if heated to 50°C. Powdered tragacanth is white to yellowish white. Gum tragacanth swells in cold water to give extremely viscous colloidal solutions, probably the most viscous of all the plant gums.
• Uses: Tragacanth is a gum produced from a bush of the genus astragalus. It swells in water to give a highly viscous sol or paste. A 1% solution of the purest gum has a viscosity of approximately 3,400 cps, and about 2% can form a paste. Solutions have a ph of 5–6. It is stable at low ph and is an effective suspending agent because of its stability and acid resistance. It is used in salad dressings, sauces, fruit fillings, and citrus beverages. It is also termed gum tragacanth. In pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing, e.g., to suspend heavy insoluble powders, as an excipient for tablets and to impart consistence to troches; also in making emulsions and emulsifying agents; as stabilizer, thickener, texturizer in food; in adhesives (mucilages, pastes); in textile sizing, textile printing and general printing inks, and in dyeing with insoluble color lakes. tragacanth gum is an effective emulsifying agent, binder, film former, and viscosity controller, it is also used as a stabilizing ingredient in lotions. Tragacanth gum is derived from the resin of the Astragalus gummifer shrub.