Potassium nitrite
CAS Registry Number®
7758-09-0
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CAS Name
Potassium nitriteMolecular Formula
HNO2.KCite this Page
Potassium nitrite. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=7758-09-0 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 7758-09-0). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
441 °C (decomp)Density (1)
1.915 g/cm³
Source(s)
- (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/K.HNO2/c;2-1-3/h;(H,2,3)
InChIKey
InChIKey=LEMJDBDGPTVGML-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
N(=O)O.[K]
Canonical SMILES
[K].O=NO
Other Names for this Substance
- Nitrous acid, potassium salt (1:1)
- Nitrous acid, potassium salt
- Potassium nitrite
- Klear
- E 249
