It is widely used in many industries and regarded as monosodium glutamate in industry. 

CMC could be used as flocculating agent, chelating agent, emulsifier, thickening agent, water-retaining 

agent, sizing agent, and film-forming material, and so on. CMC is also widely applied in fields 

such as electronics, pesticides, leather, plastics, printing, ceramics, and the daily-use chemical industry