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Aluminium compounds: dialuminium trisulphide
The aluminium in dialuminium trisulphide formally is in the oxidation state 3.

Dialuminium trisulphide
- Formula as often written: Al2S3
- Hill system formula: Al2S3
- CAS registry number: [1302-81-4]
- Formula weight: 150.161
- Class: sulphide
Synonyms
- dialuminium trisulphide
- aluminium(III) sulphide
- aluminium sulfide
- aluminium sulphide
- aluminium(III) sulfide
- aluminum sulfide
- aluminum sulphide
- aluminum(III) sulfide
- aluminum(III) sulphide
- dialuminium trisulfide
- dialuminum trisulfide
- dialuminum trisulphide
Physical properties
- Colour: yellow or yellow-grey
- Appearance: powder
- Melting point: 100°C
- Boiling point: sublimes at 1500 under N2
- Density: 2020 kg m-3
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Element analysis
Element percentages for the elements in dialuminium trisulphide
| Element |
% |
| Al |
35.94 |
| S |
64.06 |
Synthesis
Not available
Solid state structure
- Geometry of aluminium: 4 coordinate: tetrahedral
- Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern
What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Al2S3 unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.
Formula: Al2S3
mass %
150 100.0 __________________________________________________ 151 2.4 _ 152 13.3 _______ 153 0.2 154 0.7 155 0.0 156 0.0
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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