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Iridium Tribromide, IrBr3

Iridium Tribromide, IrBr3.4H2O, may be obtained by dissolving the hydrated dioxide, IrO2.2H2O, in hydrobromic acid, and evaporating to dryness to decompose the tetrabromide thus formed. Extraction with water and subsequent crystallisation yields olive-green prisms, very soluble in water, but insoluble in alcohol.

At 105-120° C. the water of crystallisation is removed.

An Acid Iridium Tribromide, IrBr3.3HBr.3H2O, is obtained as small, deliquescent, steely blue crystals on working the mother-liquor from the previous salt for a further crop of crystals. It decomposes at 120° C.

Like the trichloride, iridium tribromide unites with bromides of the alkali metals to form hromiridites, the most important of which are:

Potassium Bromiridite, K3IrBr6.3H2O, long, olive-green needles; Sodium Bromiridite, Na3IrBr6.12H2O, brownish green rhombohedra; Ammonium Bromiridite, [(NH4)3IrBr6]2H2O, small olive-green crystals.

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