Trisodium pentaborate explained

Trisodium pentaborate is a salt that can form as a monohydrate with formula, which contains the anion dihydroxydopentaborate .

Its formula may be incorrectly given as, or as . It may also be called simply sodium pentaborate, but this name is more properly reserved for the compound with elemental formula .

Structure

Trisodium pentaborate monohydrate crystallizes as thin plates in the orthorhombic crystal system, with symmetry group Pbca and cell parameters a = 880.4 pm, b = 1837.1 pm, c = 1092.4 pm, formulas per cell Z = 8.

References

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Notes and References

  1. Silvio Menchetti and Cesare Sabelli (1977): "The crystal structure of synthetic sodium pentaborate monohydrate". Acta Crystallographica Section B, volume B33, pages 3730-3733.