Bariumbromid

BeschreibungBarium bromide has the molecular formula of BaBr2. Like barium chloride, it is soluble in water but is toxic if ingested. BaBr2 crystallizes in a PbCl2 motif, as white orthorhombic crystals that are deliquescent. In aqueous solution, BaBr2 behaves as a simple salt. Barium bromide can be crystallized from its solution as a dihydrate, BaBr2·2H2O (molecular weight: 333.19), which forms the anhydrate by heating to 120°C. It dissolves in its own water-of-hydration at 75°C before decomposing to the anhydrate.

VerwendenBarium bromide is a precursor to chemicals used in photography as well as to form other bromides.Historically, barium bromide was used to purify radium in a process of fractional crystallization devised by Marie Curie. Since radium precipitates preferentially in a solution of barium bromide, the ratio of radium to barium in the precipitate was found to be higher than the ratio in the solution.