6516. Nickel Sesquioxide

Nomenclature

CAS number: 1314-06-3
Nickelic oxide; black nickel oxide.
Ni2O3; mol wt 165.39.
Ni 70.98%, O 29.02%.

Description and references

Contains a variable quantity of water.

Properties

Gray-black powder. Dec at ≈600° into NiO and oxygen. Insol in water; very slightly sol in cold acid; dissolved by hot HCl with evolution of Cl, and by hot H2SO4 or HNO3 with evolution of oxygen.