5411. Lead Iodide

Nomenclature

CAS number: 10101-63-0
I2Pb; mol wt 461.01.
I 55.05%, Pb 44.94%.
PbI2.

Description and references

Review of toxicology and human exposure: Toxicological Profile for Lead (PB99-166704, 1999) 640 pp.

Properties

Bright yellow, heavy odorless powder. Poisonous. d 6.16. mp 402°. One gram dissolves in 1350 ml cold, 230 ml boiling water; sol in concd solns of alkali iodides; freely sol in soln of sodium thiosulfate; sol in 200 parts cold 90 parts hot aniline. Insol in alcohol or cold HCl. Protect from light.

Use

Bronzing, gold pencils, mosaic gold, printing, photography.