Product Description
Medical field
Dermatology uses certain medications containing urea to increase skin moisture. The sealing dressing used for non surgical nail removal contains 40% urea.
The carbon-14 breath test for the presence of Helicobacter pylori was conducted using urea labeled with carbon-14 or carbon-13. Because the urease of Helicobacter pylori uses urea to produce ammonia, in order to increase the pH value in its surrounding stomach. The same principle can also be used to test similar bacteria living in animal stomachs.
Agricultural sector
Urea is a high concentration nitrogen fertilizer, which is a neutral quick acting fertilizer and can also be used to produce various compound fertilizers. No harmful substances remain in the soil, and long-term application has no adverse effects. Animal husbandry can be used as feed for ruminants. However, excessive temperature during granulation can produce a small amount of biuret, also known as biuret, which has an inhibitory effect on crops. China stipulates that the urea urea content for fertilizer should be less than 0.5%. When the urea content exceeds 1%, it cannot be used as seed fertilizer, seedling fertilizer, and foliar fertilizer. The urea content during other application periods should not be too high or too concentrated.
Industrial sector
It can be used in large quantities as a raw material for the production of various products such as melamine, urea formaldehyde resin, hydrazine hydrate, tetracycline, phenobarbital, caffeine, reduced brown BR, phthalocyanine B, phthalocyanine Bx, monosodium glutamate, etc.