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Terbium acetate

chemical compound

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2023
Entity authorityQ48937895 ↗
Source-derived summary

Terbium(III) acetate is the acetate salt of terbium, with a chemical formula of Tb(CH3COO)3.

Physical properties

The tetrahydrate of terbium acetate can lose hydration at 60 °C, obtaining the anhydrate at 180 °C, which starts to decompose at 220 °C, forming terbium oxide at 650 °C.

References

External reading

Lossin, Adalbert; Meyer, Gerd. Anhydrous rare-earth acetates, M(CH3COO)3 (M = samarium-lutetium, yttrium) with chain structures. Crystal structures of Lu(CH3COO)3 and Ho(CH3COO)3 (in German). Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 1993. 619(9): 1609–1615.

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This entry incorporates text from “Terbium acetate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.