Caesium bicarbonate or cesium bicarbonate is a
chemical compound
A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds. A molecule consisting of atoms of only one element ...
with the
chemical formula
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, such as pare ...
CsHCO
3. It can be produced through the following reaction:
:Cs
2CO
3 + CO
2 + H
2O → 2 CsHCO
3
The compound can be used for synthesizing
caesium
Caesium (IUPAC spelling; also spelled cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only f ...
salts, but less common than
caesium carbonate.
References
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Caesium compounds
Bicarbonates
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