Lactic acid

A colorless to yellow odorless syrupy liquid.In dyeing baths, as mordant in printing woolen goods, solvent for water in sol dyes (alc-sol induline, nigrosine, spirt-blue, manufacture cheese, confectionery, acidulant in beverages, reducing chromates in mordanting wool, for acidulating worts in brewing, for removing clostridium butyricum in manufacture of yeast, dehairing, plumping & decalcifying hides, solvent for cellulose formate, flux for soft solder, manufacture lactates which are used in food products, in medicine & as solvents, plasticicer catalyst in casting of phenolaldehyde resins.