Radium hydroxide

Structural formula
	No drawing available
General
Surname	Radium hydroxide
other names	Radium dihydroxide
Molecular formula	Ra (OH) 2
External identifiers / databases
Wikidata	Q4138111
properties
Molar mass	260.01 g mol −1
solubility	Soluble in water
Hazard and safety information
	; Radioactive
GHS hazard labeling ; no classification available
GHS hazard labeling ; no classification available
	As far as possible and customary, SI units are used. Unless otherwise noted, the data given apply to standard conditions .

Radium hydroxide , Ra (OH) ₂ is the hydroxide salt of radium .

Extraction and presentation

The connection can be made by bubbling radium oxide into water .

${\ displaystyle {\ ce {RaO + H2O -> Ra (OH) 2}}}$

Radium hydroxide is the most soluble alkaline earth metal hydroxide and is more basic than barium hydroxide . Radium hydroxide dissolved in water slowly breaks down into radon , hydrogen and oxygen .

^ ^A ^b Harold W. Kirby, Murrell Leon Salutsky: The Radiochemistry of Radium . National Academies, 1964, pp. 4 .
↑ The hazards emanating from radioactivity do not belong to the properties to be classified according to the GHS labeling. With regard to other hazards, this substance has either not yet been classified or a reliable and citable source has not yet been found.
^ Richard C. Ropp: Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds . Newnes, 2012, ISBN 0-444-59553-8 , pp. 124 .