1624. Cadmium Potassium Cyanide

Nomenclature

CAS number: 14402-75-6
Potassium tetracyanocadmate.
C4CdK2N4; mol wt 294.68.
C 16.30%, Cd 38.15%, K 26.54%, N 19.01%.
K2Cd(CN)4.

Description and references

Prepn: Dickinson, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 44, 774 (1922); Biltz, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 170, 161 (1928).

Properties

Highly refractive, cubic crystals. d 1.846. mp ≈450°. When heated, melts to a colorless liquid solidifying to a gray, cryst mass on cooling. Sol in 3 parts cold, 1 part boiling water; slightly sol in alc.