Nomenclature
CAS number: 7787-57-7
Basic bismuth bromide; bismuth oxybromide; bismuthyl bromide; bismuth “subbromide”.
BiBrO; mol wt 304.88.
Bi 68.55%, Br 26.21%, O 5.25%.
BiOBr.
Description and references
Prepn: Schenk in Handbook
of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry vol. 1, G.
Brauer, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 2nd ed., 1963) p 624.
Properties
Crystals or amorphous powder. Very stable, melts
at red heat. Practically insol in water, alc; sol in HCl, HBr, HNO3.Use
Manuf of dry cell cathodes.