Caesium chloride
CsCl
CAS:7647-17-8
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Product Properties:
Colorless cubic crystals, easily soluble in water, ethanol, and methanol, insoluble in acetone, and hygroscopic, readily deliquescing in air.
Applications:
Cesium chloride is an inorganic compound widely used in isopycnic (density gradient) centrifugation for the separation of various types of DNA and as an analytical reagent. It serves as a raw material for producing metallic cesium and cesium-containing single crystals, as well as for conductive glass production. It is also used in solutions for separating RNA from DNA by density gradient centrifugation. Cesium chloride is available in purities of 99.0%, 99.9%, and 99.99%.