mass of BaO (not Ba(OH)2): 1.67 g/100 mL (0 °C) 3.89 g/100 mL (20 °C) 4.68 g/100 mL (25 °C) 5.59 g/100 mL (30 °C) 8.22 g/100 mL (40 °C) 11.7 g/100 mL (50 °C) 20.94 g/100 mL (60 °C) 101.4 g/100 mL (100 °C)[citation needed]
Barium hydroxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Ba(OH)2. The monohydrate (x = 1), known as baryta or baryta-water, is one of the principal compounds of barium. This white granular monohydrate is the usual commercial form.
Barium hydroxide can be prepared by dissolving barium oxide (BaO) in water:
BaO + H2O → Ba(OH)2
It crystallises as the octahydrate, which converts to the monohydrate upon heating in air. At 100 °C in a vacuum, the monohydrate will yield BaO and water.[3] The monohydrate adopts a layered structure (see picture above). The Ba2+ centers adopt a square antiprismatic geometry. Each Ba2+ center is bound by two water ligands and six hydroxide ligands, which are respectively doubly and triply bridging to neighboring Ba2+ centre sites.[4] In the octahydrate, the individual Ba2+ centers are again eight coordinate but do not share ligands.[5]
Coordination sphere about an individual barium ion in Ba(OH)2.H2O.
Industrially, barium hydroxide is used as the precursor to other barium compounds. The monohydrate is used to dehydrate and remove sulfate from various products.[6] This application exploits the very low solubility of barium sulfate. This industrial application is also applied to laboratory uses.
Barium hydroxide decomposes to barium oxide when heated to 800 °C. Reaction with carbon dioxide gives barium carbonate. Its aqueous solution, being highly alkaline, undergoes neutralization reactions with acids. It is especially useful on reactions that require the titrations of weak organic acids. Thus, it forms barium sulfate and barium phosphate with sulfuric and phosphoric acids, respectively. Reaction with hydrogen sulfide produces barium sulfide. Precipitation of many insoluble, or less soluble barium salts, may result from double replacement reaction when a barium hydroxide aqueous solution is mixed with many solutions of other metal salts.[17]
Reactions of barium hydroxide with ammonium salts are strongly endothermic. The reaction of barium hydroxide octahydrate with ammonium chloride[18][19]or[20]ammonium thiocyanate[20][21] is often used as a classroom chemistry demonstration, producing temperatures cold enough to freeze water and enough water to dissolve the resulting mixture.
Barium hydroxide presents the same hazards such as skin irritation and burns as well as eye damage, just as the other strong bases and as other water-soluble barium compounds: it is corrosive and toxic. [citation needed]
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