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Actinium(III) chloride
Actinium(III) chloride is a chemical compound containing the rare radioactive element actinium. This salt has the formula AcCl3. Molecular weight of the compound is 333.378 g/mol.
Synthesis
Actinium(III) chloride is made by reacting actinium hydro ...
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Actinium(III) fluoride –
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Actinium(III) oxide
Actinium(III) oxide is a chemical compound containing the rare radioactive element actinium. It has the formula Ac2O3. It is similar to its corresponding lanthanum compound, lanthanum(III) oxide, and contains actinium in the oxidation state +3. –
Al
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Aluminium antimonide – AlSb
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Aluminium arsenate –
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Aluminium arsenide
Aluminium arsenide () is a semiconductor material with almost the same lattice constant as gallium arsenide and aluminium gallium arsenide and wider band gap than gallium arsenide. (AlAs) can form a superlattice with gallium arsenide ( GaAs) which ...
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Aluminium diboride –
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Aluminium bromide
Aluminium bromide is any chemical compound with the empirical formula AlBrx. Aluminium tribromide is the most common form of aluminium bromide. It is a colorless, sublimable hygroscopic solid; hence old samples tend to be hydrated, mostly as al ...
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Aluminium carbide
Aluminum carbide, chemical formula Al4 C3, is a carbide of aluminum. It has the appearance of pale yellow to brown crystals. It is stable up to 1400 °C. It decomposes in water with the production of methane.
Structure
Aluminum carbide has ...
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Aluminium iodide –
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Aluminium nitride
Aluminium nitride ( Al N) is a solid nitride of aluminium. It has a high thermal conductivity of up to 321 W/(m·K) and is an electrical insulator. Its wurtzite phase (w-AlN) has a band gap of ~6 eV at room temperature and has a potenti ...
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Aluminium oxide –
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Aluminium phosphide – AlP
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Aluminium chloride
Aluminium chloride, also known as aluminium trichloride, is an inorganic compound with the formula . It forms hexahydrate with the formula , containing six water molecules of hydration. Both are colourless crystals, but samples are often contam ...
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Aluminium fluoride –
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Aluminium hydroxide
Aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)3, is found in nature as the mineral gibbsite (also known as hydrargillite) and its three much rarer polymorphs: bayerite, doyleite, and nordstrandite. Aluminium hydroxide is amphoteric, i.e., it has both basic ...
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Aluminium nitrate
Aluminium nitrate is a white, water-soluble salt of aluminium and nitric acid, most commonly existing as the crystalline hydrate, aluminium nitrate nonahydrate, Al(NO3)3·9H2O.
Preparation
Aluminium nitrate cannot be synthesized by the reac ...
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Aluminium sulfide
Aluminum sulfide or aluminium sulphide is a chemical compound with the formula Al2 S3. This colorless species has an interesting structural chemistry, existing in several forms. The material is sensitive to moisture, hydrolyzing to hydrated alumi ...
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Aluminium sulfate
Aluminium sulfate is a salt with the formula Al2 (SO4)3. It is soluble in water and is mainly used as a coagulating agent (promoting particle collision by neutralizing charge) in the purification of drinking water and wastewater treatment plan ...
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Aluminium potassium sulfate
Potassium alum, potash alum, or potassium aluminium sulfate is a chemical compound: the double sulfate of potassium and aluminium, with chemical formula KAl(SO4)2. It is commonly encountered as the hydrate, dodecahydrate, KAl(SO4)2·12H2O. It c ...
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Americium(II) bromide −
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Americium(III) bromide −
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Americium(II) chloride −
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Americium(III) chloride –
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Americium(III) fluoride −
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Americium(IV) fluoride −
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Americium(II) iodide −
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Americium(III) iodide −
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Americium dioxide
Americium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was na ...
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Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula . A stable binary hydride, and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinct pungent smell. Biologically, it is a common nitrogenous ...
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Ammonium azide
Ammonium azide is the chemical compound with the formula , being the salt of ammonia and hydrazoic acid. Like other inorganic azides, this colourless crystalline salt is a powerful explosive, although it has a remarkably low sensitivity. is physi ...
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Ammonium bicarbonate
Ammonium bicarbonate is an inorganic compound with formula (NH4)HCO3. The compound has many names, reflecting its long history. Chemically speaking, it is the bicarbonate salt of the ammonium ion. It is a colourless solid that degrades readily to ...
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Ammonium bisulfate –
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Ammonium bromide –
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Ammonium chromate –
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Ammonium cerium(IV) nitrate
Ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) is the inorganic compound with the formula . This orange-red, water-soluble cerium salt is a specialised oxidizing agent in organic synthesis and a standard oxidant in quantitative analysis.
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Ammonium cerium(IV) sulfate –
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Ammonium chloride –
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Ammonium chlorate –
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Ammonium cyanide –
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Ammonium dichromate –
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Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate –
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Ammonium hexafluoroaluminate – AlF
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Ammonium hexafluorophosphate – F
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Ammonium hexachloroplatinate –
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Ammonium hexafluorosilicate
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Ammonium hexafluorotitanate
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Ammonium hexafluorozirconate
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Ammonium hydroxide
Ammonia solution, also known as ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide, ammoniacal liquor, ammonia liquor, aqua ammonia, aqueous ammonia, or (inaccurately) ammonia, is a solution of ammonia in water. It can be denoted by the symbols NH3(aq). Although ...
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Ammonium nitrate
Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is a white crystalline salt consisting of ions of ammonium and nitrate. It is highly soluble in water and hygroscopic as a solid, although it does not form hydrates. It is ...
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Ammonium orthomolybdate
Ammonium orthomolybdate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula (NH4)2MoO4. It is a white solid that is prepared by treating molybdenum trioxide with aqueous ammonia. Upon heating these solutions, ammonia is lost, to give ammonium h ...
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Ammonium sulfamate –
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Ammonium sulfide –
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Ammonium sulfite –
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Ammonium sulfate –
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Ammonium perchlorate
Ammonium perchlorate ("AP") is an inorganic compound with the formula Ammonium, NH4perchlorate, ClO4. It is a colorless or white solid that is soluble in water. It is a powerful oxidizer. Combined with a fuel, it can be used as a rocket propella ...
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Ammonium permanganate
Ammonium permanganate is the chemical compound NH4MnO4, or NH3· HMnO4. It is a water soluble, violet-brown or dark purple salt.
Preparation
Ammonium permanganate was first prepared by Eilhard Mitscherlich in 1824 by reaction of silver perma ...
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Ammonium persulfate –
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Ammonium diamminetetrathiocynatochromate(III) –
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Ammonium thiocyanate –
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Ammonium triiodide
Ammonium triiodide (NH4I3) is the salt of the ammonium cation with the triiodide anion.
Sometimes the name ammonium triiodide is mistakenly used to refer to a different compound, nitrogen triiodide
Nitrogen triiodide is an inorganic compound ...
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Diammonium dioxido(dioxo)molybdenum –
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Diammonium phosphate
Diammonium phosphate (DAP; IUPAC name diammonium hydrogen phosphate; chemical formula (NH4)2(HPO4) is one of a series of water- soluble ammonium phosphate salts that can be produced when ammonia reacts with phosphoric acid.
Solid diammonium ph ...
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Tetramethylammonium perchlorate –
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Antimony hydride (stybine) –
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Antimony pentachloride –
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Antimony pentafluoride
Antimony pentafluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula Sb F5. This colourless, viscous liquid is a valuable Lewis acid and a component of the superacid fluoroantimonic acid, formed when mixing liquid HF with liquid SbF5 in a 2:1 ratio ...
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Antimony potassium tartrate –
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Antimony sulfate –
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Antimony trichloride –
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Antimony trifluoride –
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Antimony trioxide
Antimony(III) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Sb2O3. It is the most important commercial compound of antimony. It is found in nature as the minerals valentinite and senarmontite. Like most polymeric oxides, Sb2O3 dissolves i ...
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Antimony trisulfide
Antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) is found in nature as the crystalline mineral stibnite and the amorphous red mineral (actually a mineraloid) metastibnite. It is manufactured for use in safety matches, military ammunition, explosives and fireworks. It ...
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Antimony pentasulfide –
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Argon fluorohydride – HArF
As
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Arsenic trifluoride
Arsenic trifluoride is a chemical compound of arsenic and fluorine with the chemical formula AsF3. It is a colorless liquid which reacts readily with water.
Preparation and properties
It can be prepared by reacting hydrogen fluoride, HF, with ars ...
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Arsenic triiodide
Arsenic triiodide is the inorganic compound with the formula As I3. It is an orange to dark red solid that readily sublimes. It is a pyramidal molecule that is useful for preparing organoarsenic compounds.
Preparation
It is prepared by a reacti ...
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Arsenic pentafluoride –
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Arsenic trioxide
Arsenic trioxide, sold under the brand name Trisenox among others, is an inorganic compound and medication. As an industrial chemical, whose major uses include in the manufacture of wood preservatives, pesticides, and glass. As a medication, it ...
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Arsenous acid –
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Arsenic acid
Arsenic acid or trihydrogen arsenate is the chemical compound with the formula . More descriptively written as , this colorless acid is the arsenic analogue of phosphoric acid. Arsenate and phosphate salts behave very similarly. Arsenic acid as su ...
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Arsine
Arsine (IUPAC name: arsane) is an inorganic compound with the formula As H3. This flammable, pyrophoric, and highly toxic pnictogen hydride gas is one of the simplest compounds of arsenic. Despite its lethality, it finds some applications ...
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Barium azide
Barium azide is an inorganic azide with the formula . It is a barium salt of hydrazoic acid. Like most azides, it is explosive. It is less sensitive to mechanical shock than lead azide.
Preparation
Barium azide may be prepared by reacting sodi ...
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Barium bromide
Barium bromide is the chemical compound with the formula BaBr2. It is ionic in nature.
Structure and properties
BaBr2 crystallizes in the lead chloride (cotunnite) motif, giving white orthorhombic crystals that are deliquescent.
In aqueous so ...
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Barium carbonate –
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Barium chlorate –
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Barium chloride –
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Barium chromate –
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Barium ferrate
Barium ferrate is the chemical compound of formula BaFeO4. This is a rare compound containing iron in the +6 oxidation state. The ferrate(VI) ion has two unpaired electrons, making it paramagnetic. It is isostructural with BaSO4, and contains the ...
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Barium ferrite
Barium ferrite, abbreviated BaFe, BaM, is the chemical compound with the formula BaFe12O19. This and related ferrite materials are components in magnetic stripe cards and loudspeaker magnets.
BaFe is described as Ba2+(Fe3+)12(O2−)19. The Fe3+ ...
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Barium fluoride
Barium fluoride (BaF2) is an inorganic compound with the formula BaF2. It is a colorless solid that occurs in nature as the rare mineral frankdicksonite. Under standard conditions it adopts the fluorite structure and at high pressure the PbCl2 s ...
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Barium hydroxide –
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Barium iodide –
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Barium manganate –
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Barium nitrate
Barium nitrate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ba( NO3)2. It, like most barium salts, is colorless, toxic, and water-soluble. It burns with a green flame and is an oxidizer; the compound is commonly used in pyrotechnics.
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Barium oxalate
Barium oxalate (BaC2O4), a barium salt of oxalic acid, is a white odorless powder that is sometimes used as a green pyrotechnic colorant generally in specialized pyrotechnic compositions containing magnesium metal powder. Flame color is rich an ...
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Barium oxide
Barium oxide, also known as baria, is a white hygroscopic non-flammable compound with the formula BaO. It has a cubic structure and is used in cathode ray tubes, crown glass, and catalysts. It is harmful to human skin and if swallowed in larg ...
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Barium permanganate –
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Barium peroxide –
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Barium sulfate
Barium sulfate (or sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ba SO4. It is a white crystalline solid that is odorless and insoluble in water. It occurs as the mineral barite, which is the main commercial source of barium and ...
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Barium sulfide – BaS
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Barium titanate
Barium titanate (BTO) is an inorganic compound with chemical formula BaTiO3. Barium titanate appears white as a powder and is transparent when prepared as large crystals. It is a ferroelectric, pyroelectric, and piezoelectric ceramic material ...
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Barium thiocyanate
Barium thiocyanate is a colorless water-soluble salt that is very hygroscopic. It is highly toxic to ingestion and irritates the skin. It is also soluble in most alcohols and insoluble in simple alkanes.
Uses
Barium thiocyanate is used in dyeing ...
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Beryllium borohydride –
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Beryllium bromide –
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Beryllium carbonate –
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Beryllium chloride
Beryllium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula BeCl2. It is a colourless, hygroscopic solid that dissolves well in many polar solvents. Its properties are similar to those of aluminium chloride, due to beryllium's diagonal relatio ...
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Beryllium fluoride
Beryllium fluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula Be F2. This white solid is the principal precursor for the manufacture of beryllium metal. Its structure resembles that of quartz, but BeF2 is highly soluble in water.
Properties
Ber ...
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Beryllium hydride –
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Beryllium hydroxide –
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Beryllium iodide –
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Beryllium nitrate –
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Beryllium nitride
Beryllium nitride, Be3N2, is a nitride of beryllium. It can be prepared from the elements at high temperature (1100–1500 °C);Egon Wiberg, Arnold Frederick Holleman (2001) ''Inorganic Chemistry'', Elsevier unlike beryllium azide or BeN6, ...
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Beryllium oxide – BeO
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Beryllium sulfate
Beryllium sulfate normally encountered as the tetrahydrate, e(H2O)4O4 is a white crystalline solid. It was first isolated in 1815 by Jons Jakob Berzelius. Beryllium sulfate may be prepared by treating an aqueous solution of many beryllium salts ...
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Beryllium sulfite –
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Beryllium telluride – BeTe
Bi
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Bismuth chloride
Bismuth chloride (or butter of bismuth) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula BiCl3. It is a covalent compound and is the common source of the Bi3+ ion. In the gas phase and in the crystal, the species adopts a pyramidal structure, i ...
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Bismuth hydroxide–BiH
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Bismuth(III) iodide
Bismuth(III) iodide is the inorganic compound with the formula Bi I3. This gray-black salt is the product of the reaction of bismuth and iodine, which once was of interest in qualitative inorganic analysis.
Bismuth(III) iodide adopts a distin ...
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Bismuth(III) nitrate
Bismuth(III) nitrate is a salt composed of bismuth in its cationic +3 oxidation state and nitrate anions. The most common solid form is the pentahydrate. It is used in the synthesis of other bismuth compounds. It is available commercially. It is th ...
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Bismuth(III) oxide –
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Bismuth(III) sulfide– Bi
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Bismuth ferrite –
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Bismuth oxychloride – BiOCl
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Bismuth pentafluoride
Bismuth pentafluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula BiF5. It is a white solid that is highly reactive. The compound is of interest to researchers but not of particular value.
Structure
BiF5 is polymeric and consists of linear chains ...
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Bismuth tribromide
Bismuth tribromide is an inorganic compound of bismuth and bromine with the chemical formula BiBr3.
Preparation
It may be formed by the reaction of bismuth oxide and hydrobromic acid.
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Bismuth tribromide can also be produced by the direct oxi ...
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Borane
Trihydridoboron, also known as borane or borine, is an unstable and highly reactive molecule with the chemical formula . The preparation of borane carbonyl, BH3(CO), played an important role in exploring the chemistry of boranes, as it indicated ...
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Borax
Borax is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated borate of sodium, with chemical formula often written . It is a colorless crystalline solid, that dissolves in water to make a basic solution. It is commonly available in powder or granular form ...
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Borazine
Borazine, also known as borazole, is a non-polar inorganic compound with the chemical formula B3H6N3. In this cyclic compound, the three BH units and three NH units alternate. The compound is isoelectronic and isostructural with benzene. For th ...
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Borazocine ((3Z,5Z,7Z)-azaborocine) –
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Boric acid
Boric acid, more specifically orthoboric acid, is a compound of boron, oxygen, and hydrogen with formula . It may also be called hydrogen borate or boracic acid. It is usually encountered as colorless crystals or a white powder, that dissolve ...
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Boron carbide
Boron carbide (chemical formula approximately B4C) is an extremely hard boron– carbon ceramic, a covalent material used in tank armor, bulletproof vests, engine sabotage powders,
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Boron nitride
Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexagonal ...
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Boron suboxide –
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Boron tribromide –
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Boron trichloride –
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Boron trifluoride
Boron trifluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula BF3. This pungent, colourless, and toxic gas forms white fumes in moist air. It is a useful Lewis acid and a versatile building block for other boron compounds.
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Boron triiodide –BI
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Boron oxide –
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Boroxine –
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Decaborane
Decaborane, also called decaborane(14), is the borane with the chemical formula B10 H14. This white crystalline compound is one of the principal boron hydride clusters, both as a reference structure and as a precursor to other boron hydrides. It ...
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Diborane
Diborane(6), generally known as diborane, is the chemical compound with the formula B2H6. It is a toxic, colorless, and pyrophoric gas with a repulsively sweet odor. Diborane is a key boron compound with a variety of applications. It has attracte ...
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Diboron tetrafluoride –
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Pentaborane Pentaborane may refer to:
* Pentaborane(9) (B5H9)
* Pentaborane(11) (B5H11)
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