溶于碘化钾、碘化钠和碱溶液中，不溶于水和醇，有毒。 碘化铅(II)具有非线性光学、铁电和铁弹性质。它具有宽的半导体带隙(Eg=2.3 eV)，能够在室温及以上的温度下实现低噪声。它具有高X射线和伽马射线阻挡效率，并具有优异的环境稳定性。制药工业，照像业，镀青铜。 可用作光电池的探测器材料 X射线和γ射线检测 Lead (II) iodide has nonlinear optical, ferroelectric, and ferroelastic properties.It has a wide semiconducting band gap (Eg=2.3 eV) which enables low noise operation at room temperature and above. It has high X-ray and gamma ray stopping efficiency and has excellent environment stability.