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sodium azide
Sign in to saveAlso known as potaxio, azium, sodium salt of hydrazoic acid, hydrazoic acid, sodium salt, NaN3
chemical compound
Chemical data
- Formula
- N3Na
- Molecular weight
- 65.01 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- sodium azide
- SMILES
- [N-]=[N+]=[N-].[Na+]
- InChIKey
- PXIPVTKHYLBLMZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
5,895 papers- Sodium azide poisoning: a narrative review.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021
- Comment on sodium azide poisoning.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022
- [Sodium azide].Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine · 2004
- Sodium azide/nitrite suicides in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2022.Journal of forensic and legal medicine · 2025
- [Sodium azide].Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine · 1999
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Encyclopedic overview
Sodium azide is an inorganic compound with the formula NaN3. This colorless salt is the gas-forming component in some car airbag systems. It is used for the preparation of other azide compounds. It is highly soluble in water and is acutely poisonous.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sodium azide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.