Lead telluride

Lead compounds: lead telluride

The lead in lead telluride formally is in the oxidation state 2.

Lead telluride

• Formula as often written: PbTe
• Hill system formula: Pb₁Te₁
• CAS registry number: [1314-91-6]
• Formula weight: 334.8
• Class: telluride

Synonyms

• lead telluride
• lead(II) telluride

Physical properties

• Colour: grey
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 924°C
• Boiling point:
• Density: 8160 kg m^-3

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in lead telluride

Element	%
Pb	61.89
Te	38.11

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of lead: 6 coordinate: octahedral
• Prototypical structure: NaCl (rock salt)

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the PbTe unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Pb₁Te₁

mass  %
324   0.0 
325   0.0 
326   0.2 
327   0.1 
328   3.0 __
329   3.6 __
330  12.1 ______
331  13.2 _______
332  36.8 __________________
333  32.0 ________________
334  72.9 ____________________________________
335  28.3 ______________
336 100.0 __________________________________________________
337  30.2 _______________
338  71.6 ____________________________________

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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