Potassium benzoate — properties from Wikipedia — wikidata.cheminfo.org

Potassium benzoatePotassium benzoate (E212), the potassium salt of benzoic acid with the formula C6H5COOK, is a food preservative that inhibits the growth of mold, yeast and some bacteria. Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article Potassium benzoate, revision 1380051411.

Property

Value

Formula

C7H5KO2, 160.21 g/mol

Melting point

300 °C

Boiling point

465 °C

Density

1.56 g/cm³

The compounds of every Wikipedia article carrying a Chembox or a Drugbox, refreshed daily, with the values their infoboxes give. The pages need JavaScript; the API does not.

Search — compounds by structure and property

About — sources, licence, and how to cite

Status — the daily update

API documentation

Our other tools

learn.cheminfo.org

inchi.cheminfo.org

vcl.cheminfo.org

smiles.cheminfo.org

iupac-name.cheminfo.org

openbabel.cheminfo.org

www.chemcalc.org

dbe.cheminfo.org

metabo.nmrium.com

derepflow.cheminfo.org

surge.cheminfo.org

tex.cheminfo.org

lcao.cheminfo.org

regexp.cheminfo.org

pdb.cheminfo.org

elucidation.cheminfo.org

equilibrium.cheminfo.org

polycarp.cheminfo.org

3d.cheminfo.org

periodic-table.cheminfo.org

database.cheminfo.org

symmetry.cheminfo.org

osiris.cheminfo.org

atoms.cheminfo.org

moles.cheminfo.org

inorganic.cheminfo.org

powerpoint.cheminfo.org