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Barium fluoride

powder, 98%

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
BaF2
CAS Number:
7787-32-8
Molecular Weight:
175.32
EC Number:
232-108-0
MDL number:
MFCD00003450
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
PubChem Substance ID:
329752433
NACRES:
NA.55

Assay

98%

form

powder

bp

2260 °C (lit.)

density

4.89 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

F[Ba]F

InChI

1S/Ba.2FH/h;2*1H/q+2;;/p-2

InChI key

OYLGJCQECKOTOL-UHFFFAOYSA-L

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Features and Benefits

Primary glass modifier in fluorozirconate glasses.

Pictograms

Skull and crossbones
GHS06

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H301,H332

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation

Storage Class Code

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Synthesis and fluorescence of neodymium-doped barium fluoride nanoparticles.
Bender CM, et al.
Chemistry of Materials, 12(7), 1969-1976 (2000)
Large barium fluoride detectors.
Wisshak K and Kappeler F.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 227(1), 91-96 (1984)
Refractive properties of barium fluoride.
Mayakova MN, et al.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, 54(5), 628-630 (1964)
W H Wong
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 29(3), 338-347 (1988-03-01)
Bismuth germanate (BGO) and barium fluoride (BaF2) scintillators are presently used in positron emission tomegraphy (PET) cameras. This study evaluates the important PET performance parameters of image resolution, true sensitivity, scatter background, accidental background, and realistic maximum radioactivity in the
T J Bastow et al.
Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance, 6(1), 95-100 (1996-02-01)
The X-ray storage phosphor materials BaFC1 and BaFBr differ greatly in their 137Ba nuclear electric quadrupole interaction, despite a common crystal structure. The quadrupole coupling constant in BaFCl is relatively small and increases rapidly with temperature, in an unusual manner:
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