Title: Nickel Sesquioxide
CAS Registry Number: 1314-06-3
Synonyms: Nickelic oxide; black nickel oxide
Molecular Formula: Ni2O3
Molecular Weight: 165.39
Percent Composition: Ni 70.98%, O 29.02%
Literature References: Contains a variable quantity of water.
Properties: Gray-black powder. Dec at ~600° into NiO and oxygen. Insol in water; very slightly sol in cold acid; dissolved by hot HCl with evolution of Cl, and by hot H2SO4 or HNO3 with evolution of oxygen.