#Chemical properties of caesium skin#
#Chemical properties of caesium plus#

The reaction with water is much more violent and energetic than the reaction between water and other alkali metals (e.g., sodium or lithium). Otherwise, the element would react with air or water.

Samples of cesium are kept in sealed containers, under an inert liquid or gas or in a vacuum.

Although the official IUPAC name for the element is cesium, several countries, including England, retain the original Latin spelling of the element: caesium.

This refers to the color of the line in the spectrum the chemists saw that tipped them off about the new element. The name for the element comes from the Latin word 'caesius', which means 'sky blue'.

German chemists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered cesium in 1860 when analyzing the spectrum of mineral water.

Although not a liquid at room temperature, if you hold a vial containing cesium in your hand, your body heat will melt the element into its liquid form, which resembles pale liquid gold.

It is not as yellow as high-karat gold but has a warm color

Gold is often listed as the only yellow-colored element.

Contact with metals may evolve flammable hydrogen gas. Some are oxidizers and may ignite combustibles (wood, paper, oil, clothing, etc.). Runoff from fire control or dilution water may be corrosive and/or toxic and cause pollution.įire Hazard: Non-combustible, substance itself does not burn but may decompose upon heating to produce corrosive and/or toxic fumes. Fire may produce irritating, corrosive and/or toxic gases. Effects of contact or inhalation may be delayed.

#Chemical properties of caesium skin#

Contact with molten substance may cause severe burns to skin and eyes. Health Hazard: Toxic inhalation, ingestion or skin contact with material may cause severe injury or death. Reacts when heated above about 84☌ with aqueous solutions of reducing sugars other than sucrose, to evolve toxic levels of carbon monoxide. May generate flammable and/or toxic gases with ammonium salts, nitrides, halogenated organics, various metals, peroxides, and hydroperoxides. May initiate polymerization reactions in polymerizable organic compounds, especially epoxides. Reacts with certain metals (such as aluminum and zinc) to form oxides or hydroxides of the metal and generate gaseous hydrogen.

#Chemical properties of caesium plus#

Reactivity Profile: Solution neutralizes acids exothermically to form salts plus water.

Quaternary ammonium compounds, alkylbenzyldimethyl, chloridesĬaesium Hydroxide (CAS NO.2) is a colorless to yellow crystalline solid, and it is an aqueous solution, strongly corrosive, it is harmful to skin and eyes. Dilution with water it may generate enough heat to cause steaming or spattering.

Bicyclohept-5-ene-2-carboxylicacid, bicyclohept-5-en-2-ylmethyl ester.

1 Molybdenum,dichlorobis(h5-2,4-cyclopentadien-1-yl).CESIUM CYANOTRIDECAHYDRODECABORATE (2-).