Sulfur hexafluoride

• Formula: F₆S
• Molecular weight: 146.055
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/F6S/c1-7(2,3,4,5)6 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: SFZCNBIFKDRMGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 2551-62-4
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Sulfur fluoride; OC-6-11; Elegas; SF6; Hexafluorure de soufre; UN 1080; Esaflon; sulphur hexafluoride
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
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Enthalpy of sublimation

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

PCR Inc., 1990
PCR Inc., Research Chemicals Catalog 1990-1991, PCR Inc., Gainesville, FL, 1990, 1. [all data]

Ohta, Yamamuro, et al., 1994
Ohta, T.; Yamamuro, O.; Suga, H., Heat capacity and enthalpy of sublimation of sulful hexafluoride, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1994, 26, 319-31. [all data]

Matzik and Schneider, 1985
Matzik, I.; Schneider, G.M., Fluid phase equilibria of binary mixtures of sulfur hexafluoride with octane, nonane, hendecane, and cis-decahydronaphthalene at temperature between 280 K and 440 K and at pressures up to 140 MPa, Ber. Bunsen-Ges. Phys. Chem., 1985, 89, 551. [all data]

Goloborod'ko and Khodeeva, 1972
Goloborod'ko, N.P.; Khodeeva, S.M., Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1972, 46, 235-7. [all data]

Makarevich, Sokolova, et al., 1968
Makarevich, L.A.; Sokolova, E.S.; Sorina, G.A., Critical Parameters pf Sulfur Hexafluoride, Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1968, 42, 22-3. [all data]

Khodeeva, 1966
Khodeeva, S.M., Visual Observation of Gas-Gas Mixture, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1966, 40, 1061-3. [all data]

Atack and Schneider, 1951
Atack, D.; Schneider, W.G., The Coexistence Curve of Sulfur Hexafluoride in the Critical Region., J. Phys. Colloid Chem., 1951, 55, 532. [all data]

Makarevich and Sokolova, 1973
Makarevich, L.A.; Sokolova, O.N., Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1973, 47, 436-7. [all data]

Ohta, Yamamuro, et al., 1994, 2
Ohta, Tomoko; Yamamuro, Osamu; Suga, Hiroshi, Heat capacity and enthalpy of sublimation of sulfur hexafluoride, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1994, 26, 3, 319-331, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(94)90009-4 . [all data]

Klemm and Henkel, 1932
Klemm, Wilhelm; Henkel, Paul, «65533»ber einige physikalische Eigenschaften von SF6, SeF6, TeF6 und CF4, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 1932, 207, 1, 73-86, https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.19322070107 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ρc	Critical density

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