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Lead(IV) oxide, commonly known as lead dioxide, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula PbO 2.It is an oxide where lead is in an oxidation state of +4. [1] It is a dark-brown solid which is insoluble in water. [2]
Lead oxides are a group of inorganic compounds with formulas including lead (Pb) and oxygen (O).. Common lead oxides include: Lead(II) oxide, PbO, litharge (red), massicot (yellow)
Scrutinyite / ˈ s k r uː t ɪ n i. aɪ t / is a rare oxide mineral and is the alpha crystalline form of lead dioxide (α-PbO 2), plattnerite being the other, beta form. The mineral was first reported in 1988 and its name reflects the scrutiny and efforts required to identify it from a very limited amount of available sample material.
Plattnerite is found in numerous arid locations in North America (US and Mexico), most of Europe, Asia (Iran and Russia), Africa and Southern and Western Australia.It occurs in weathered hydrothermal base-metal deposits as hay-like bundles of dark prismatic crystals with a length of a few millimeters; the bundles grow on, or sometimes within various minerals, [5] including cerussite ...
Lead(II) oxide, also called lead monoxide, is the inorganic compound with the molecular formula Pb O.It occurs in two polymorphs: litharge having a tetragonal crystal structure, and massicot having an orthorhombic crystal structure.
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...
The names "caffeine" and "3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione" both signify the same chemical compound. The systematic name encodes the structure and composition of the caffeine molecule in some detail, and provides an unambiguous reference to this compound, whereas the name "caffeine" simply names it.
Lead(II) compounds are characteristic of the inorganic chemistry of lead. Even strong oxidizing agents like fluorine and chlorine react with lead to give only PbF 2 and PbCl 2 . [ 56 ] Lead(II) ions are usually colorless in solution, [ 64 ] and partially hydrolyze to form Pb(OH) + and finally [Pb 4 (OH) 4 ] 4+ (in which the hydroxyl ions act as ...