Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
sulfur hexafluoride
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Sulfur hexafluoride
Sulfur hexafluoride
(SF
6
) is an
inorganic
, colorless, odorless, non-
flammable
, extremely potent
greenhouse gas
which is an excellent
electrical insulator
. has an
octahedral geometry
, consisting of six
fluorine
atoms attached to a central
sulfur
atom. It is a
hypervalent molecule
. Typical for a nonpolar gas, it is poorly
soluble
in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents. It is generally transported as a
liquefied compressed gas
. It has a density of 6.12 g/L at sea level conditions, which is considerably higher than the
density of air
(1.225 g/L).
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License