The arch appliance of sodium borohydride is the assembly of sodium
dithionite from sulfur dioxide: Sodium dithionite is acclimated as a acid
abettor for copse lurid and in the dyeing industry.
Sodium borohydride reduces aldehydes and ketones to accord the accompanying
alcohols. This acknowledgment is acclimated in the assembly of assorted
antibiotics including chloramphenicol, dihydrostreptomycin, and thiophenicol.
Assorted steroids and vitamin A are able application sodium borohydride in at
atomic one step.
Sodium borohydride is acclimated as abbreviation abettor in the amalgam of
gold nanoparticles.
Sodium borohydride has been advised as a solid accompaniment hydrogen
accumulator candidate. Although applied temperatures and pressures for hydrogen
accumulator accept not been achieved, in 2012 a core–shell nanostructure of
sodium borohydride was acclimated auspiciously to store, absolution and reabsorb
hydrogen beneath abstinent conditions.