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Finish detergent tablet. Finish is the brand name of a range of dishwasher detergent and cleaning products sold by the consumer products manufacturer Reckitt.The tablets, based on the original product, contain surfactants which counteract water hardness and break down foods containing starches and proteins, and remove bleachable stains and produce enzymes and foams.
In 2013, private equity firm Yellow Wood acquired Ilex Consumer Products Group; Calgon is now part of their portfolio company, PDC Brands. [4] [5] Calgon Carbon Corporation, acquired by its management in a leveraged buyout in 1985 and taken public in 1987. Calgon Water Management, sold to English China Clays in June 1993 for $307.5 million. [6]
A hexamine fuel tablet (or heat tablet, Esbit) is a form of solid fuel in tablet form. The tablets burn smokelessly, have a high energy density , do not liquefy while burning and leave no ashes . Invented in 1936 in Murrhardt , Germany , the main component is hexamine , which was discovered by Aleksandr Butlerov in 1859.
The primary limitation of halazone tablets was the very short usable life of opened bottles, typically three days or less, unlike iodine-based tablets which have a usable open bottle life of three months. [citation needed] Dilute halazone solutions (4 to 8 ppm of available chlorine) has also been used to disinfect contact lenses, [8] and as a ...
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SHMP is used as a sequestrant and has applications within a wide variety of industries, including as a food additive in which it is used under the E number E452i. Sodium carbonate is sometimes added to SHMP to raise the pH to 8.0–8.6, which produces a number of SHMP products used for water softening and detergents.
Reckitt & Colman also made several divestments during this time, including the fine arts and graphical products (with brands such as Winsor & Newton) and Conimex Dutch food business in 1990, Colman's of Norwich UK food business and Robinsons soft drink products in 1995, and Keen's Australian and Canadian food business in 1998. [9] [21] [22]
In cooking, a leavening agent (/ ˈ l ɛ v ən ɪ ŋ /) or raising agent, also called a leaven (/ ˈ l ɛ v ən /) or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture.