Constituent
Name
Cs2CO3
Official name
Dicaesium carbonate
Family
ionic solid
Class
normal salt
Compound type
carbonate
Constituent abundance in material
Relevance
main - major
Arrangement
single phase
Mass fraction
1.0
Mole fraction
1.0
Chemical composition
Formula
$Cs_2^+.(CO_3)^{2-}$
Chemical formula
Cs2CO3
Elemental formula
(Cs+)2 C O (O-)2
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Isotope mole fraction State Relevance
$Cs^+$ Caesium cation element 2 0.6666666666666666 1 constituent cation main
$(CO_3)^{2-}$ Carbonate anion chemical function 1 0.3333333333333333 1 anionic radical main
Chemical functions
  Function Number
$(CO_3)^{2-}$ 1
Chemical bonds
  Bond Number
$Cs^+ \cdot O^-$ 2
$\dddot - \dddot - C \dddot - O^{-2/3}$ 3
Class
normal salts (07)
Type
simple normal salts (07.01)
Phase type
crystalline
Crystal system
monoclinic
Crystal class
prismatic
Crystal class symbol
2/m (C2h)
Crystal spacegroup
P2(1)/c
Texture
polycrystalline
Molar mass
325.819 $g/mol$
Density
4.072 (4.26 calc) $g/cm^3$
Refringence type
biaxial
Color
colorless, white
Diaphaneity
transparent to translucent