neoFroxx® Sodium Thiosulfate - Dimensional Solution 0.1 M (0.1 N), CAS: 7772-98-7

It is added in small quantities to ammonium thiosulfate, which is used as a photographic fixing salt. The hydrated salt is used as an anti-chlorine in bleaching, in wastewater purification, for reduction of dichromate in chromed leather production, and as a solvent for silver chloride in the chloride roasting of silver-containing minerals. [Ullmann] Used in paper bleaching, photography (fixer), silver extraction, dyeing textiles (mordant), and leather manufacturing; Also used as an antidote for cyanide poisoning and in vet medicine for bloat and ringworm; [Merck Index]

Merck Index - O'Neil MJ, Heckelman PE, Dobbelaar PH, Roman KJ (eds). The Merck Index, An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals, 15th Ed. Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013.

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/ANTIFUNGAL ACTION OF SODIUM THIOSULFATE, USP,/IS PROBABLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO SLOW RELEASE OF COLLOIDAL SULFUR.

Goodman, L.S., and A. Gilman. (eds.) The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975., p. 1168

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IN CYANIDE POISONING, SODIUM NITRITE IS INJECTED IVTO PRODUCE METHEMOGLOBIN WHICH COMBINES WITHCYANIDE ION & RENDERS IT TEMPORARILY INACTIVE IN FORM OF CYANMETHEMOGLOBIN. SODIUM THIOSULFATE /USP/ IS THEN INJECTED IV TO FORM NONTOXIC THIOCYANATE.

Osol, A. and J.E. Hoover, et al. (eds.). Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences. 15th ed. Easton, Pennsylvania: Mack Publishing Co., 1975., p. 779

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THIOSULFATE SERVES AS SUBSTRATE FOR ENZYME RHODANESE, WHICH MEDIATES CONVERSION OF CYANIDE TO MUCH LESS TOXIC THIOCYANATE, WHICH IS EXCRETED IN URINE.

Casarett, L.J., and J. Doull. Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1975., p. 239

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