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|   ImageFile = [[File:CaF2 polyhedra.png|250px|Caesium selenide]]<br/><div style="text-align:center">Cs<sup>+</sup>: <span style="color:#99CC00; background-color:#99CC00;">__</span> Se<sup>2-</sup>: <span style="color:#C0C0C0; background-color:#C0C0C0;">__</span></div> 
|   ImageName = Caesium selenide
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| Section1 = {{Chembox Identifiers
|   CASNo = 31052-46-7
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| ChemSpiderID = 148025
| EC_number = 250-448-8 
| PubChem = 169244
| StdInChI=1S/2Cs.Se/q2*+1;-2
| StdInChIKey = KUBAIENASCDSDJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
| SMILES = [Se-2].[Cs+].[Cs+] 
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| Section2 = {{Chembox Properties
|   Formula = Cs<sub>2</sub>Se
|   MolarMass = 344.771 
|   Appearance = colourless, highly hygroscopic crystals<ref name='Lax'>Jean D'Ans, Ellen Lax: ''Taschenbuch für Chemiker und Physiker. 3. Elemente, anorganische Verbindungen und Materialien, Minerale, Band 3.'' 4. Auflage, Springer, 1997, ISBN 978-3-5406-0035-0, S. 692 ({{Google books|||page=692}}).</ref>
|   Density = 4.33 g·cm<sup>−3</sup><ref>Sommer, Helmut; Hoppe, Rudolf. The crystal structure of cesium sulfide and a remark about cesium selenide, cesium telluride, rubidium selenide, and rubidium telluride{{in lang|de}}. ''Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie'', 1977. 429: 118–130. ISSN: 0044-2313</ref>
|   Solubility = hydroyses<ref name='Alfa'>{{Alfa|39515|name='Rubidiumselenid'|Datum=Dienstag, 29 June 2010}}</ref>
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| GHS_ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=C&L Inventory |url=https://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals/cl-inventory-database/-/discli/details/153441 |website=echa.europa.eu}}</ref>
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| GHSSignalWord = Danger
| HPhrases = {{H-phrases|301|331|373|410}}
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| Section8 = {{Chembox Related
|   OtherCations = [[Chemistry:Lithium selenide|lithium selenide]]<br/>[[Chemistry:Sodium selenide|sodium selenide]]<br/>[[Chemistry:Potassium selenide|potassium selenide]]<br/>[[Chemistry:Rubidium selenide|rubidium selenide]]
|   OtherAnions = [[Chemistry:Caesium oxide|Caesium oxide]]<br/>[[Chemistry:Caesium sulfide|Caesium sulfide]]<br/>[[Chemistry:Caesium sulfide|Caesium sulfide]]<br/>Caesium polonide
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'''Caesium selenide''' is an inorganic compound of [[Chemistry:Caesium|caesium]] and [[Chemistry:Selenium|selenium]]. It is a [[Physics:Selenide|selenide]], with the chemical formula of Cs<sub>2</sub>Se. It can be prepared by reacting caesium and selenium. It has an inverse [[Chemistry:Fluorite|fluorite]] structure, with [[Space group|space group]] <math>Fm\bar{3}m</math>. There are 4 units per unit cell,<ref name="Lax"/> and the other selenides from the same group are similar.

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