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Zinc chloride

CAS Registry Number®

7646-85-7

CAS Name

Zinc chloride

Molecular Formula

Cl2Zn

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Zinc chloride.   CAS Common Chemistry.   CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d.   http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=7646-85-7 (retrieved 2024-11-23) (CAS RN: 7646-85-7).  Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Compound Properties

  • Boiling Point (1)

    732 °C

  • Melting Point (1)

    290 °C

  • Density (1)

    2.907 g/cm³ @ Temp: 25 °C

Source(s)

  • (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)

Other Names and Identifiers

InChI

InChI=1S/2ClH.Zn/h2*1H;/q;;+2/p-2

InChIKey

InChIKey=JIAARYAFYJHUJI-UHFFFAOYSA-L

SMILES

[Zn](Cl)Cl

Canonical SMILES

Cl[Zn]Cl

Other Names for this Substance

  • Zinc chloride (ZnCl2)
  • Zinc chloride
  • Butter of zinc
  • Zinc Butter
  • Zinc dichloride

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Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers

53917-99-0, 1162648-93-2

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