Periodic table with oxidation
- iron oxide
- iron(II) oxide
The oxidation number of iron in iron oxide is 2.
- Formula: FeO
- Hill system formula: Fe1O1
- CAS registry number: [1345-25-1]
- Formula weight: 71.844
- Class: oxide
- Colour: black
- Appearance: crystalline solid
- Melting point: 1370°C
- Boiling point: decomposes at 3414
- Density: 6000 kg m-3
Synthesis
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Solid state structure
- Geometry of iron:
- Prototypical structure: NaCl (rock salt)
Element analysis
Element percentages in iron oxide| Element | |
|---|---|
| Fe | 77.73 |
| 22.27 |
Isotope pattern for FeO
THe chart below shows the calculated isotope pattern for the formula FeO with the most intense ion set to 100%.
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References
The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.
- R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
- N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
- F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
- R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
- A.R.West in, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
- J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
- D.R. Lide, (ed.) in, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
- J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
- J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.
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