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Compounds of cadmium:

cadmium (II) nitride

• Formula as commonly written: Cd₃N₂
• Hill system formula: Cd₃N₂
• CAS registry number: [12380-95-9]
• Formula weight: 365.246
• Class: nitride

Synonyms

• cadmium (II) nitride
• cadmium nitride
• tricadmium dinitride

Physical properties

• Colour: black
• Appearance: powder
• Melting point:
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis and oxidation numbers

Synthesis

Cadmium nitride is made by heating cadmium amide.

3Cd(NH₂)₂(s) (180°C) → Cd₃N₂(s) + 4NH₃(g)

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Cd₃N₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Cd₃N₂

mass  %
350   0.1 
351   0.1 
352   0.1 
353   0.1 
354   0.7 
355   0.9 
356   2.6 _
357   3.2 __
358   7.4 ____
359   9.8 _____
360  20.5 __________
361  27.5 ______________
362  49.3 _________________________
363  59.0 ______________________________
364  84.8 __________________________________________
365  83.3 __________________________________________
366 100.0 __________________________________________________
367  76.7 ______________________________________
368  79.4 ________________________________________
369  44.0 ______________________
370  43.9 ______________________
371  13.3 _______
372  16.5 ________
373   1.6 _
374   3.5 __
375   0.0 
376   0.3 

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.
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• 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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