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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 16
(2011) pp 9-11
Polyoxomolybdates
David E. Berry
Department of Chemistry, University
of Victoria, Box 3065, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3V6, berryde@uvic.ca
Received July 20, 2010. Accepted October 1, 2010.
Published: 25 January 2011
Abstract. An experiment suitable for an introductory inorganic chemistry laboratory course is described. An unusually straightforward preparation of an organoammonium polyoxomolybdate is followed by a photochromic change of the solid in UV light.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; inorganic chemistry
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: berryde@uvic.ca)
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