Uranium sulphide

Uranium compounds: uranium sulphide

The uranium in uranium sulphide formally is in the oxidation state 2.

Uranium sulphide

• Formula as often written: US
• Hill system formula: S₁U₁
• CAS registry number: [12039-11-1]
• Formula weight: 270.095
• Class: sulphide

Synonyms

• uranium sulphide
• uranium(II) sulphide
• uranium sulfide
• uranium(II) sulfide

Physical properties

• Colour: silvery
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 246°C
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in uranium sulphide

Element	%
S	11.87
U	88.13

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

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

Isotope pattern

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

Formula: U₁S₁

mass  %
266   0.0 
267   0.7 
268   0.0 
269   0.0 
270 100.0 __________________________________________________
271   0.8 
272   4.4 __
273   0.0 
274   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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