Constituent
- Name
- LaF3
- Official name
- Lanthanum trifluoride
- Family
- ionic solid
- Class
- normal salt
- Compound type
- fluoride
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- LaF3
- Chemical formula
- LaF3
- Elemental formula
- (La3+) (F-)3
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- normal salts (07)
- Type
- simple normal salts (07.01)
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- trigonal
- Crystal class
- ditrigonal-scalenohedral
- Crystal class symbol
- -3m (D3d)
- Crystal spacegroup
- P-3c1
- Texture
- polycrystalline
- Molar mass
- 195.9 g/mol
- Density
- 5.9 g/cm3
- Refringence type
- uniaxial
- Refringence sign
- negative
- Birefringence
- 0.006
- Refraction index nα
- 1.609
- Refraction index nβ
- 1.603
- Color
- white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent
- Luster
- vitreous