Product Name: thorium nitrate
Cas No.: 13823-29-5
MF: N4O12Th
MW: 480.06
Description: Properties: colorless or white hexagonal plate crystals. Hygroscopicity. Soluble in water and organic solvents.Acidic aqueous solution. Anhydrous at 500 ° C decomposition of thorium dioxide. The general industrial containing about 48% to 50% of thorium dioxide, a white sucrose-like.
Uses: used extensively for the production of gas mantles (need to add 1% cerium salt) is the raw material for preparing thorium compounds. Such as the manufacture of thorium dioxide, thorium metal; power vacuum, synthetic chemistry, refractory.