Tellurium 52 Te 127.60(3)   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... As Se Br Sb Te I Bi Po At

Compounds of tellurium:

tellurium (I) iodide

• Formula as commonly written: Te₄I₄
• Hill system formula: I₄Te₄
• CAS registry number: [51380-73-5]
• Formula weight: 1018.018
• Class: iodide

Synonyms

• tellurium (I) iodide
• tellurium iodide (alpha)
• tetratellurium tetraiodide

Physical properties

• Colour: black
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 185°C
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis and oxidation numbers

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of tellurium:
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the Te₄I₄ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: Te₄I₄

mass  %
1000   0.0 
1001   0.0 
1002   0.1 
1003   0.2 
1004   0.5 
1005   0.8 
1006   1.8 _
1007   2.3 _
1008   4.8 __
1009   5.7 ___
1010  11.3 ______
1011  12.1 ______
1012  23.2 ____________
1013  21.5 ___________
1014  41.5 _____________________
1015  32.4 ________________
1016  63.8 ________________________________
1017  40.0 ____________________
1018  85.8 ___________________________________________
1019  37.7 ___________________
1020 100.0 __________________________________________________
1021  23.7 ____________
1022  97.0 ________________________________________________
1023   8.1 ____
1024  71.7 ____________________________________
1025   0.0 
1026  35.8 __________________
1027   0.0 
1028   9.5 _____

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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