Molybdenum 42 Mo 95.94(2)   Switch element to... actinium aluminium aluminum americium antimony argon arsenic astatine barium berkelium beryllium bismuth bohrium boron bromine cadmium caesium calcium californium carbon cerium cesium chlorine chromium cobalt copper curium darmstadtium dubnium dysprosium einsteinium erbium europium fermium fluorine francium gadolinium gallium germanium gold hafnium hassium helium holmium hydrogen indium iodine iridium iron krypton lanthanum lawrencium lead lithium lutetium magnesium manganese meitnerium mendelevium mercury molybdenum neodymium neon neptunium nickel niobium nitrogen nobelium osmium oxygen palladium phosphorus platinum plutonium polonium potassium praseodymium promethium protactinium radium radon rhenium rhodium roentgenium rubidium ruthenium rutherfordium samarium scandium seaborgium selenium silicon silver sodium strontium sulfur sulphur tantalum technetium tellurium terbium thallium thorium thulium tin titanium tungsten ununbium ununhexium ununoctium ununpentium ununquadium ununtrium uranium vanadium xenon ytterbium yttrium zinc zirconium Go adjacent... V Cr Mn Nb Mo Tc Ta W Re

Compounds of molybdenum:

molybdenum (III) oxide

• Formula as commonly written: Mo₂O₃
• Hill system formula: Mo₂O₃
• CAS registry number: [1313-29-7]
• Formula weight: 239.878
• Class: oxide

Synonyms

• molybdenum (III) oxide
• molybdenum oxide
• dimolybdenum trioxide

Physical properties

• Colour: grey black
• Appearance: solid
• Melting point:
• Boiling point:
• Density:

Suppliers

Coming soon...

Element analysis and oxidation numbers

Synthesis

Not available

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Mo₂O₃ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Mo₂O₃

mass  %
232  16.6 ________
233   0.0 
234  20.8 __________
235  35.7 __________________
236  44.0 ______________________
237  43.9 ______________________
238  96.9 ________________________________________________
239  53.8 ___________________________
240 100.0 __________________________________________________
241  82.6 _________________________________________
242  81.9 _________________________________________
243  58.6 _____________________________
244  68.8 __________________________________
245  14.3 _______
246  35.5 __________________
247   0.1 
248   7.2 ____
249   0.0 
250   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.

	Web webelements.com