Thursday, February 9, 2012

What is Caesium bromide?

Caesium bromide, (CsBr), is an ionic compound of caesium and bromine. It has simple cubic p-type cubic crystallic structure, comparable to that of caesium chloride type with space group Pm3m and lattice constant a = 0.42953 nm. Distance between Cs and Br atoms is 0.37198 nm.
Uses
Caesium bromide is sometimes used in optics as a beamsplitter component in wide-band spectrophotometers.
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