MCHM has the advantage of being less toxic than previous frothing agents containing 2-ethylhexanol.
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Besides these, other uses include manufacture of linoleum, explosives, insecticides and disinfectants, as a flux in soldering, in brewing and in mineral beneficiation as a frothing agent.
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U . S . Patent 4915825 describes a froth flotation process for frothing agent, and finely divided coal particles adhere to air bubbles induced into the agent which rise to the surface.