Constituent YbF3 | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: YbF3
Official name: Ytterbium fluoride

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

Constituent abundance in material

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

Chemical composition

Formula: $Yb^{3+} \cdot F^-_3$
Chemical formula: YbF3
Elemental formula: (Yb3+) (F-)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	0.25	1	constituent cation	main
	$F^-$	Fluoride anion	element	3	0.75	1	constituent anion	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$\cdot (\cdot) Yb^{3+} \cdot F^{-}$	3

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

Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: orthorhombic
Crystal class: dipyramidal
Crystal class symbol: mmm (D2h)
Crystal spacegroup: Pnma

Texture: polycrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 230.04 $g/mol$
Density: 8.2 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: biaxial
Color: white