Berkelium bromide is a
bromide of
berkelium
Berkelium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Bk and atomic number 97. It is a member of the actinide and transuranium element series. It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the Lawrence Berke ...
, with the
chemical formula
In chemistry, a chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, ...
BkBr
3.
Structure
Berkelium bromide has a
PuBr3 structure at low temperature and is in the
orthorhombic crystal system, with lattice parameters a = 403 pm, b = 1271 pm and c = 912 pm.
At high temperature, berkelium bromide has an
AlCl3 structure and a
monoclinic crystal system
In crystallography, the monoclinic crystal system is one of the seven crystal systems. A crystal system is described by three vectors. In the monoclinic system, the crystal is described by vectors of unequal lengths, as in the orthorhombic sy ...
with lattice parameters a = 723 pm, b = 1253 pm, c = 683 pm and β = 110.6°.
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{{Actinide halides
Berkelium compounds
Bromides
Actinide halides