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Beed Lavan

Vidlavan

TRADE NAME


Aluminium(III) chloride

MOLECULAR FORMULA


AlCl3

ABOUT

Beed Lavan implies to Aluminium chloride (AlCl3). The solid has a low melting and boiling point, and is covalently bonded. It sublimes at 178 °C. It exists in the solid state as a six-coordinate layer lattice.In nature, it occurs in volcanic regions, and deposited in crystal forms.It is white in colour or colourless. It is odourless, water soluble, and having a biting taste

SHODHAN OR AYURVEDA PURIFICATION PROCESS

No specific purification process for Beed Lavan is found in Ayurveda treatise which may indicate that Beed Lavan does not require to undergo specific purification process and can be directly used as medicine. However if Beed Lavan is contaminated with dust or other foreign particles it is advisable to filter them out.

SUGGESTED READING

Check Wikipedia.org Entry for Beed Lavan.