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Strontium compounds: strontium difluoride
The strontium in strontium difluoride formally is in the oxidation state 2.
Strontium difluoride
- Formula as often written: SrF2
- Hill system formula: F2Sr1
- CAS registry number: [7783-48-4]
- Formula weight: 125.617
- Class: fluoride
Synonyms
- strontium difluoride
- strontium(II) fluoride
- strontium fluoride
Physical properties
- Colour: white
- Appearance: crystalline solid
- Melting point: 1477°C
- Boiling point: 2460°C
- Density: 4240 kg m-3
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Element analysis
Element percentages for the elements in strontium difluoride
| Element |
% |
| F |
30.25 |
| Sr |
69.75 |
Synthesis
Strontium fluoride is made by the fluorination of strontium dichloride
SrCl2(s) + F2(g) → SrF2(s)
Isotope pattern
What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the SrF2 unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.
Formula: Sr1F2
mass %
122 0.7 123 0.0 124 11.9 ______ 125 8.5 ____ 126 100.0 __________________________________________________
References
The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.
- R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
- N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
- F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
- R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
- A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
- J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
- D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
- J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
- J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.
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