Aluminum Phosphate Guide

Aluminium phosphate (AlPO4) is a chemical compound. It is used in cake mixes and in some baking powders as a leavening agent to help baked goods rise. Medicinally it is used as adsorbent for toxoid.

It is also used industrially as a high-temperature dehydrating agent. When heated to decomposition, aluminium phosphate decomposes into aluminium oxide and phosphorus pentoxide, the latter of which is very effective at absorbing water.[2][3] Phosphorus pentoxide may be useful in a number of applications including the production of ketene from acetic acid, although this process is rather dangerous and may yield a significant amount of byproducts.[4]...