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Chemical data
- Formula
- BrCs
- Molecular weight
- 212.81 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- cesium bromide
- SMILES
- [Br-].[Cs+]
- InChIKey
- LYQFWZFBNBDLEO-UHFFFAOYSA-M
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- bromine
- Mass
- 211.824
- Image
- Cesium bromide.jpg
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- chemical formula
- BrCs
- Commons category
- Caesium bromide
- canonical SMILES
- [Br-].[Cs+]
- density
- 4.43
- melting point
- 637
- boiling point
- 1297
- refractive index
- 1.6984
- standard enthalpy of formation
- -406
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Encyclopedic overview
Caesium bromide or cesium bromide is an ionic compound of caesium and bromine with the chemical formula CsBr. It is a white or transparent solid with melting point at 636 °C that readily dissolves in water. Its bulk crystals have the cubic CsCl structure, but the structure changes to the rocksalt type in nanometer-thin film grown on mica, LiF, KBr or NaCl substrates.
Synthesis
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cesium bromide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.