Process and composition for the anticlumping of non- powdery salts or fertilizers

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention relates to a process for the anticlumping of non-powdery salts or fertilizers characterized, by the fact that there is sprayed onto the constituent particles of the fertilizer, after drying and before storage at a moment when said particles are in their final form and have acquired almost the whole of their final mechanical properties, an effective amount:, - either of an aqueous solution of alkali or amine silicate whose content of dry matter is from 15 to 60% by weight, this application being preceded or followed by an application of an anionic surfactant in aqueous or oily solution, - or of an aqueous solution of alkali or amine silicate comprising an anionic surfactant in …