Caesium_nitrate

Caesium nitrate

Caesium nitrate

Chemical compound CsNO3

Caesium nitrate or cesium nitrate is a salt with the chemical formula CsNO3. An alkali metal nitrate, it is used in pyrotechnic compositions, as a colorant and an oxidizer, e.g. in decoys and illumination flares. The caesium emissions are chiefly due to two powerful spectral lines at 852.113 nm and 894.347 nm.[citation needed]

Quick Facts Identifiers, Properties ...

Caesium nitrate prisms are used in infrared spectroscopy, in x-ray phosphors, and in scintillation counters.[3] It is also used in making optical glasses and lenses.

As with other alkali metal nitrates, caesium nitrate decomposes on gentle heating to give caesium nitrite:

2 CsNO3 → 2 CsNO2 + O2

Caesium also forms two unusual acid nitrates, which can be described as CsNO3·HNO3 and CsNO3·2HNO3 (melting points 100 °C and 36–38 °C respectively).[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Weast, Robert C., ed. (1981). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (62nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. B-92. ISBN 0-8493-0462-8..
  2. [2]
    N Iu Tarasenko; E P Lemeshevskaia (1978). "Deĭstvie soedineniĭ tseziia na organizm [Effect of cesium compounds on the body]". Vestn Akad Med Nauk SSSR (in Russian). PMID 695884.
  3. [3]
    Budavari, Susan, ed. (2001), The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals (13th ed.), Merck, p. 345, ISBN 0911910131.


Stub icon

This inorganic compound–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This pyrotechnics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Caesium_nitrate, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.