Constituent CsNO3 | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: CsNO3
Official name: Caesium nitrate

Family: ionic solid
Class: normal salt
Compound type: nitrate

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0
Mole fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Formula: $Cs^+.(NO_3)^-$
Chemical formula: CsNO3
Elemental formula: (Cs+) (N+) O2 (O-)
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$Cs^+$	Caesium cation	element	1	0.5	1	constituent cation	main
	$(NO_3)^-$	Nitrate anion	chemical function	1	0.5	1	anionic radical	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$(NO_3)^-$	1

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$Cs^+ \cdot O^-$	1
	$\dddot - \dddot - N^+ \dddot - O^{-2/3}$	3

Class: normal salts (07)
Type: simple normal salts (07.01)

Phase name: CsNO3-II
Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: trigonal
Crystal class: pyramidal
Crystal class symbol: 3 (C3)
Crystal spacegroup: P3(1)

Texture: polycrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 194.91 $g/mol$
Density: 3.685 (calc. 3.72) $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: uniaxial
Color: colorless, white
Diaphaneity: transparent to translucent