What is Rosin Gums and it’s Applications?
Rosin which is also known as “Greek pitch” or “colophony”, is a solid form of resin which is produced from pines and other plants, mainly conifers which is built by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the liquid terpene components. It is transparent and changes its color from yellow to black. At room temperature it is fragile and it also melts at stove-top temperatures. It mainly consists of some abietic acid. It is adhesive when warm and encompasses faint pine like odour. Gum rosin consists of leftovers which are produced upon distillation of natural fluids from pine trees, wood rosin, acquired by solvent extraction of stumps, which is usually dark in color.
Uses of Gum Resin:Most rosin is employed during a chemically modified form instead of within the raw state within which it's obtained. It consists primarily of a mix of abietictype and pimaric-type acids with smaller amounts of neutral compounds. This intrinsic acidity, as well as other chemical properties, enables it to be converted to an oversized number of downstream derivatives which are employed in a good range of applications. The most vital uses are within the manufacture of adhesives, paper sizing agents, printing inks, solders and fluxes, various surface coatings, insulating materials for the industry, rubber, chewing gums and soaps and detergents. Rosin and its chemical derivatives are used chiefly to form soaps, varnishes, holdfast, printing inks, driers, sizes for paper, adhesives, binders, soldering fluxes, gloss oils for paints, and pitch for casks.