Constituent
- Name
- ZnSe
- Official name
- Zinc selenide
- Family
- metallic solid
- Class
- pseudometal (semi-conductor)
- Compound type
- selenide
- Comments
- There is also an hexagonal phase (wurtzite)
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $ZnSe$
- Chemical formula
- ZnSe
- Elemental formula
- Zn Se
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- pseudometals (14)
- Type
- homovalent bilayer pseudometals (14.02)
- Phase name
- Zincblende
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- isometric (cubic)
- Crystal class
- hextetrahedral
- Crystal class symbol
- -43m (Td)
- Crystal spacegroup
- F-43m
- Texture
- polycrystalline
- Molar mass
- 144.35 $g/mol$
- Density
- 5.42 - 5.27 (calc.) $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- isotropic
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 2.67 (550 nm)
- Color
- light yellow, gray
- Diaphaneity
- translucent to opaque
- Luster
- metallic