Silica Gel Dubai

silica gel is a desiccant. It is manufacturing from some chemicals such as sodium silicate. Like sodium hydroxide, Sodium silicate is a strong base. Silica gel normally appears in the shape of spheres. these small granules have a lot of advantages in our daily life.

As a desiccant, it can be used for absorbing excess moisture from any products or from any closed surroundings. sodium silicate is a chemical substance, the recommendation is to not induce vomiting, because of its corrosive nature. While you see a tiny packet of silica gel, always you can see the writings "do not eat"on it.

By accident, if you consumed silica gel, nothing serious but irritations might be there. If enough sodium silicate begins absorbing water from the lining of your mouth and esophagus, you will experience a soapy sensation and begin to feel burning. Because of the alkaline nature of the sodium silicate, it will start to eat away at your skin. It is even more hazardous if the dust gets in your eyes.

Silica gel is prepared from sodium silicate by the method of acidifying sodium it, and would not be expected to be alkaline- it is silicon dioxide (same as sand). Even if it were I would expect any remaining alkaline nature is potentially neutralized as soon as it hits your stomach.

If it is completely neutralized, there would not be the soapy sensation and there's just a risk of irritating as it goes down if it absorbs water from your mucosal lining and scratches them up. If the desiccant is dissolved in a glass of water, one could measure the pH to determine the risk of burns and would render this risk minimal to non-existent in my book.

That said, a couple of grams in a silica gel packet would not constitute a hazard severe enough that I personally would rush off to the hospital if I accidentally swallowed one. It mentioned DO NOT EAT visibly on it, and you should NOT EAT. I repeat, just because something has a negligible risk of poisoning you does not mean you can "try" eating it.