Constituent cadmium carbonate | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: cadmium carbonate
Official name: Cadmium carbonate

Family: ionic solid
Class: normal salt
Compound type: carbonate

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0
Mole fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Formula: $Cd^{2+} \cdot CO_3^{2-}$
Chemical formula: CdCO3
Elemental formula: (Cd2+) C O (O-)2
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$Cd^{2+}$	Cadmium cation	element	1	0.5	1	constituent cation	main
	$(CO_3)^{2-}$	Carbonate anion	chemical function	1	0.5	1	anionic radical	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$(CO_3)^{2-}$	1

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$\cdot Cd^{2+} \cdot O^{-}-$	2
	$\dddot - \dddot - C \dddot - O^{-2/3}$	3

Class: normal salts (07)
Type: simple normal salts (07.01)

Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: hexagonal
Crystal class: ditrigonal-scalenohedral
Crystal class symbol: -3m (D3d)
Crystal spacegroup: R-3c

Texture: polycrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 172.42 $g/mol$
Density: ~5.0 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: uniaxial
Color: colorless, white
Diaphaneity: transparent to translucent
Luster: adamantine