Edible gypsum powder can be used to order tofu. Edible gypsum powder is called food additive calcium sulfate, and it is mainly used in baked goods among nutrients, yeast activators, dough property modifiers and curing agents. As a curing agent, it is used in canned potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, kidney beans and pepper.

Calcium sulfate is also used as an ingredient in candied fruit, ice cream and other frozen desserts. Calcium sulfate is also used in beer brewing, and this product is added during malt treatment to increase the content of calcium ions in water. Calcium sulfate is used as an abrasive in cleaning agents used in contact with food. Calcium sulfate is also used in cosmetics and toothpaste.

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Gypsum powder is usually white and colorless, and colorless transparent crystals are called transparent gypsum, and sometimes it is gray, light yellow, light brown and other colors due to impurities. Stripes are white. Transparent. Glass luster, cleavage pearl luster, fibrous aggregate silk luster.

Cleavage is extremely complete and moderate, and the cleavage sheet splits into rhomboids with plane angles of 66 and 114. Sexually brittle. The hardness is 1.5~2. There is a slight change in different directions. The relative density is 2.3.

Gypsum powder is one of the five gel materials, which occupies an important position in the national economy. It is widely used in many application fields such as architecture, building materials, industrial molds and art models, chemical industry, agriculture, food processing and medical beauty, and is an important industrial raw material.

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