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    Osmium borides are compounds of osmium and boron. Their most remarkable property is potentially high hardness. It is thought that a combination of high...
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  • Osmium compounds are compounds containing the element osmium (Os). Osmium forms compounds with oxidation states ranging from −2 to +8. The most common...
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    metal borides can be easily synthesized in large quantities under ambient conditions, an important technological advantage. Most metal borides are hard;...
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  • Lanthanide (section Borides)
    borides. The "higher" borides (LnBx where x > 12) are insulators/semiconductors whereas the lower borides are typically conducting. The lower borides...
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    Collider. Certain other metal borides find specialized applications as hard materials for cutting tools. Often the boron in borides has fractional oxidation...
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    lattice (space group I41/amd), it is isomorphic with PuSi2 and ThSi2. Borides of americium include AmB4 and AmB6. The tetraboride can be obtained by...
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    selenium sulfide, an ingredient in some shampoos. Since 1990, a number of borides with chalcogens bonded to them have been detected. The chalcogens in these...
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    Ytterbium (section Borides)
    Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine...
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    Samarium (section Borides)
    proportion. The powder can be converted into larger crystals of samarium borides using arc melting or zone melting techniques, relying on the different...
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    Rhenium diboride (category Borides)
    any transition metal (476 electrons/nm3, compare to 572 electrons/nm3 for osmium and 705 electrons/nm3 for diamond). The addition of boron requires only...
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    refractory, unreactive materials such as zirconium dioxide or group 4, 5, and 6 borides. Tetrahedral coordination is a major structural motif in silicon chemistry...
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  • OsI osmium(I) iodide 76758–38–8 OsI2 osmium(II) iodide 59201–57–9 OsI3 osmium(III) iodide 59201–58–0 OsO2 osmium(IV) oxide 12036–02–1 OsO4 osmium(VIII)...
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  • "Lanthanides with Unusually Low Oxidation States in the PrB3– and PrB4– Boride Clusters". Inorganic Chemistry. 58 (1): 411–418. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem...
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  • tetrafluorohydrazine 10036-47-2 F4Na2Sn disodium tetrafluorostannate 15007-55-3 F4OOs osmium oxide tetrafluoride 38448-58-7 F4OP2 diphosphorus tetrafluoride oxide 13812-07-2...
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    metals such as tantalum and tungsten along with the more stable oxides, borides, carbides, nitrides and silicides can tolerate this. Melting in an electric...
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    an insoluble salt, K2[ThF6] (potassium hexafluorothorate(IV)). Thorium borides, carbides, silicides, and nitrides are refractory materials, like those...
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    observed spectroscopically at high temperatures in the gas phase. Scandium borides and carbides are non-stoichiometric, as is typical for neighboring elements...
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  • Nitrosylsulfuric acid – NOHSO4 Osmium hexafluoride – OsF6 Osmium tetroxide (osmium(VIII) oxide) – OsO4 Osmium trioxide (osmium(VI) oxide) – OsO3 Tributyltin...
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    brittle, and melt at a lower temperature than the corresponding carbides or borides. They are electrical conductors. However, some, such as CrSi2, Mg2Si, β-FeSi2...
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    a special case, being the only nonmetal in group 13. The alkali metal borides tend to be boron-rich, involving appreciable boron–boron bonding involving...
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    phosphide, Be3P2 has a similar structure to Be3N2. A number of beryllium borides are known, such as Be5B, Be4B, Be2B, BeB2, BeB6 and BeB12. Beryllium carbide...
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    agents such as halogens to give indium(III) compounds. It does not form a boride, silicide, or carbide, and the hydride InH3 has at best a transitory existence...
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    "Lanthanides with Unusually Low Oxidation States in the PrB3– and PrB4– Boride Clusters". Inorganic Chemistry. 58 (1): 411–418. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem...
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    lighter flints, contains 25% to 45% lanthanum. Lanthanum oxide and the boride are used in electronic vacuum tubes as hot cathode materials with strong...
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