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Rubidium

ingot, 99.6% trace metals basis

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
Rb
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
85.47
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352300
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.23

Quality Level

Assay

99.6% trace metals basis

form

ingot

reaction suitability

reagent type: reductant

packaging

pkg of Packaged in: Breakseal Ampule

resistivity

11.0 μΩ-cm, 20°C

impurities

0.2-0.4% Cs

bp

686 °C (lit.)

mp

38-39 °C (lit.)

density

1.53 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

[Rb]

InChI

1S/Rb

InChI key

IGLNJRXAVVLDKE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Rubidium is a highly electropositive alkaline metal that can be obtained as a byproduct of refining lithium from lepidolite. It is used in photomultiplier tubes, laser cooling, atomic clock, photocell, nuclear medicine, and specialty glass.

Application

Rubidium can be used as a starting material to synthesize rubidium hydrazinidoborane (RbN2H3BH3).
It can also be used as a reducing agent to synthesize reduced polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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Danger

Hazard Statements

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B - Water-react 1

Supplementary Hazards

Storage Class Code

4.3 - Hazardous materials, which set free flammable gases upon contact with water

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Marco Papagno et al.
ACS nano, 6(10), 9299-9304 (2012-10-02)
By combining angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy we reveal the structural and electronic properties of multilayer graphene on Ru(0001). We prove that large ethylene exposure allows the synthesis of two distinct phases of bilayer graphene with different properties.
Liron Stern et al.
Optics express, 20(27), 28082-28093 (2012-12-25)
In this paper we analyze the transmission and time delay properties of light propagating through a microring resonator (MRR) consisting of a solid core waveguide surrounded by an atomic vapor cladding. Using the atomic effective susceptibility of Rubidium we derive
Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Sejda et al.
Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 12(7) (2019-04-10)
Technology used to produce high purity anhydrous rubidium perrhenate on an industrial scale from high purity perrhenic acid and rubidium nitrate by the ion-exchange method is described in this paper. This material is dedicated to catalyst preparation, therefore, strict purity
Ismail Ben Soussia et al.
Nature communications, 10(1), 787-787 (2019-02-17)
Mutations that modulate the activity of ion channels are essential tools to understand the biophysical determinants that control their gating. Here, we reveal the conserved role played by a single amino acid position (TM2.6) located in the second transmembrane domain
Kazuhiro Abe et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(45), 18401-18406 (2012-10-24)
Gastric H(+),K(+)-ATPase is responsible for gastric acid secretion. ATP-driven H(+) uptake into the stomach is efficiently accomplished by the exchange of an equal amount of K(+), resulting in a luminal pH close to 1. Because of the limited free energy

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