Constituent YbPO4 | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: YbPO4
Official name: Ytterbium phosphate

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

Constituent abundance in material

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

Chemical composition

Formula: $Yb^{3+} \cdot (PO_4)^{3-}$
Chemical formula: YbPO4
Elemental formula: (Yb3+) P O (O-)3
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$Yb^{3+}$	Ytterbium cation	element	1	0.5	1	constituent cation	main
	$(PO_4)^{3-}$	Phosphate anion	chemical function	1	0.5	1	anionic radical	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$(PO_4)^{3-}$	1

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$\cdot (\cdot) Yb^{3+} \cdot O^{-}-$	3
	$\dddot - \dddot - \dddot - P \dddot - O^{-3/4}$	4

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

Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: tetragonal
Crystal class: ditetragonal-dipyramidal
Crystal class symbol: 4/mmm (D4h)
Crystal spacegroup: I4(1)/amd

Texture: polycrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 268.025 $g/mol$
Density: 5.9 (calc.) $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: uniaxial
Color: white