Tannic acid is a specific commercial form of tannin, a type of polyphenol. Its weak acidity (pKa around 10) is due to the numerous phenol groups in the structure. The chemical formula for commercial tannic acid is often given as C76H52O46, which corresponds with decagalloyl glucose, but in fact it is a mixture of polygalloyl glucoses or polygalloyl quinic acid esters with the number of galloyl moieties per molecule ranging from 2 up to 12 depending on the plant source used to extract the tannic acid. Commercial tannic acid is usually extracted from any of the following plant part: Tara pods (Caesalpinia spinosa), gallnuts from Rhus semialata or Quercus infectoria or Sicilian Sumac leaves (Rhus coriaria).

生產(chǎn)方法
1.將精萘10 澄清劑、增澀劑、粗油脫臭劑、助香劑；單寧酸可用于鞣革、墨水制造、紙張和絲綢上膠、鍋爐除垢等，還可作媒染劑、啤酒和葡萄酒的澄明劑、橡膠的凝結(jié)劑等?？捎糜谟糜谟∪?、冶金、醫(yī)藥等工業(yè)，單寧酸本身毒性很低。鈹、鋁、鎵、銦、鈮、鉭和鋯的沉淀和重量測定。銅、鐵、釩、鈰和鈷的比定測定。蛋白質(zhì)及生物堿的沉淀劑。鉬酸銨滴定鉛時的外指示劑。染料媒染劑。
用途
澄清劑、增澀劑、粗油脫臭劑、助香劑；單寧酸可用于鞣革、墨水制造、紙張和絲綢上膠、鍋爐除垢等，還可作媒染劑、啤酒和葡萄酒的澄明劑、橡膠的凝結(jié)劑等?？捎糜谟糜谟∪尽⒁苯?、醫(yī)藥等工業(yè)，單寧酸本身毒性很低。鈹、鋁、鎵、銦、鈮、鉭和鋯的沉淀和重量測定。銅、鐵、釩、鈰和鈷的比定測定。蛋白質(zhì)及生物堿的沉淀劑。鉬酸銨滴定鉛時的外指示劑。染料媒染劑。