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| Chemical Formula: |
GaCl3 |
| CAS Number: |
13450-90-3 |
| Molecular Weight: |
176.073 |
| EC Number: |
N/A |
Specification:
| Purity |
Available in 99.99%, 99.999% |
| Shape and particle size |
Available in powder |
| Packaging |
It is packed with Dacron film, then covered with a sealed plastic film bag. |
| Refractive index |
N/A |
| Density |
3.69 g/cm3 |
| Melting point |
121.50°C |
| Boiling point |
278.80 °C |
Gallium chloride (GaCl3), also known as gallium trichloride or gallium(III) chloride, is a colorless solid which dissolves easily in most solvents. Gallium trichloride is generally produced in one of two ways:
- Preparation of heated gallium and chlorine followed by sublimation under vacuum
- Heating gallium oxide with thionyl chloride
Applications
The vast majority of gallium trichloride is used in the production of more commercially valuable gallium products.
- Gallium chemistry. Gallium trichloride is a trihalide Lewis acid, the most widely used of the gallium trihalides. GaCl3 is extensively used in the production of precursor materials for advanced chemical compounds, including tri-methyl gallium and other organometallic compounds. It’s considered a key component in organogallium chemistry for this reason.
- Neutrino detection. Outside of its applications in organogallium chemistry and other chemical production, gallium chloride is used in academics as a material for solar neutrino detection. To do so, researches collected 110 tons of aqueous gallium chloride solution, then measured the decay of germanium-71 which resulted from the interaction of gallium-71 isotopes in the solution with neutrinos.
AHP Materials offers gallium trichloride at 99.999% and 99.9999% purities as part of our standard product catalog. To ask about other preparations of GaCl3, or to inquire about materials not listed on our catalog, contact us today for a custom order.
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