Is Dicyandiamide Dangerous?

 Dicyandiamide is a dangerous substance. Dicyandiamide reacts with ammonium chloride, potassium chlorate and acid to causing an explosion. It can produce hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen oxides toxic soot by high decomposition reaction. 

 Risk Factors for Dicyandiamide: 

1. It is harmful to the body after inhalation, ingestion or absorption through the skin,  but the risk for acute poisoning are small. 

2. This product is flammable and stimulating. 

3. If your skin touches dicyandiamide, remove the contaminated clothing and wash it with running water. 

4. If your eyes touch dicyandiamide, wash it with running water or salt water and go to the hospital. 

  Main uses of dicyandiamide: 

1. Raw materials for guanidine salt and melamine diallylamine. When dicyandiamide reacts with acid, a wide variety of guanidine salts can be produced. The benzene melamine diamine obtained from the reaction of dicyandiamide and benzonitrile is the intermediate of architectural coating, fiber glass board and forming of powder. 

2. Can be used as dye agent and color-fixing agent. Dicyandiamide epoxy resin produced by dicyandiamide and indoor formaldehyde can be used as dye color fixing agent. 

3. Can be used as dicyandiamide fertilizer. Dicyandiamide compound fertilizer can adjust the conversion efficiency of base fertilizer in the soil environment that are  reducing the damage of nitrogen and improving the application efficiency of organic fertilizer. 

4. As a biochemical intermediate. Used in the pharmaceutical industry to produce nitrate guanidine, sulfonamide, etc. It is also used to produce thiourea, cellulose nitrate thickener, plastic vulcanization accelerator, steel surface sealing curing agent, artificial leather filler, adhesive, etc. The pharmaceutical intermediate 5-azocytosine can be obtained by reaction of dicyandiamide with benzoic acid.