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Calcium hydride

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99.9% trace metals basis

Synonym(s):

Calcium dihydride

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
H2Ca
CAS Number:
7789-78-8
Molecular Weight:
42.09
NACRES:
NA.23
PubChem Substance ID:
24879732
UNSPSC Code:
26111700
EC Number:
232-189-2
MDL number:
MFCD00010897
assay:
99.9% trace metals basis

Product Name

Calcium hydride, 99.9% trace metals basis

InChI key

FAQLAUHZSGTTLN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/Ca.2H

SMILES string

[Ca]

assay

99.9% trace metals basis

reaction suitability

reagent type: reductant

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Application

Calcium hydride (CaH2) is a metal hydride that can be used for a variety of greener applications such as:
  • fabrication of hydrogen storage systems for fuel cell applications
  • synthesis of porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs) for adsorption of organic pollutants
  • formation of high temperature superconductors

General description

Atomic number of base material: 20
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Hazard Classifications

Eye Irrit. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - Water-react 1

Storage Class

4.3 - Hazardous materials which set free flammable gases upon contact with water

wgk

WGK 1

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Not applicable

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Not applicable

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Reversible hydrogen storage in the lithium borohydride?calcium hydride coupled system
Pinkerton FE and Meyer MS
Journal of alloys and compounds, 464(1-2), L1-L4 (2008)
Synthesis of a porous aromatic framework for adsorbing organic pollutants application
Ren H, et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21(28), 10348-10353 (2011)
Superconductive sodalite-like clathrate calcium hydride at high pressures
Wang H, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(17), 6463-6466 (2012)
Development of hydrogen storage for fuel cell generators II: utilization of calcium hydride and lithium hydride.
Kong VCY, et al.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 28(2), 205-214 (2003)
Robert Weinmeister et al.
ACS nano, 9(10), 9718-9730 (2015-09-15)
Aqueous microdroplets with a volume of a few femtoliters are an ideal sample size for single-molecule fluorescence experiments. In particular, they enable prolonged measurements to be made on individual molecules that can diffuse freely in the surrounding medium. However, the
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