973. Barium Cyanide

Nomenclature

CAS number: 542-62-1
C2BaN2; mol wt 189.36.
C 12.69%, Ba 72.52%, N 14.79%.
Ba(CN)2.

Description and references

Prepn: GB 602393 (1948 to I.C.I.); Gmelins, Barium (8th ed.) 30, 327 (1932) and supplement 483 (1960).

Properties

Crystals; slowly dec in air. Poisonous. Very sol in water; sol in alcohol.

Use

In electroplating processes; in metallurgy.