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Caesium bromide

Caesium bromide

Chemical compound


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.[6]

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Synthesis

Caesium bromide can be prepared via following reactions:

CsOH (aq) + HBr (aq) → CsBr (aq) + H2O (l)
Cs2(CO3) (aq) + 2 HBr (aq) → 2 CsBr (aq) + H2O (l) + CO2 (g)
  • Direct synthesis:
2 Cs (s) + Br2 (g) → 2 CsBr (s)

The direct synthesis is a vigorous reaction of caesium with bromine. Due to its high cost, it is not used for preparation.

Uses

Caesium bromide is sometimes used in optics as a beamsplitter component in wide-band spectrophotometers.


References

  1. Haynes, p. 4.57
  2. Haynes, p. 4.132
  3. Haynes, p. 10.240
  4. Vallin, J.; Beckman, O.; Salama, K. (1964). "Elastic Constants of CsBr and CsI from 4.2K to Room Temperature". Journal of Applied Physics. 35 (4): 1222. Bibcode:1964JAP....35.1222V. doi:10.1063/1.1713597.
  5. Caesium bromide. nlm.nih.gov
  6. Schulz, L. G. (1951). "Polymorphism of cesium and thallium halides". Acta Crystallographica. 4 (6): 487–489. doi:10.1107/S0365110X51001641.


* Crystran Ltd experimental data July 2021 Archived 2012-12-18 at the Wayback Machine

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