Re: Copper Sulphate - information about

Anders Lund wrote:
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> Hey
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> I'm looking for some information on Copper (II) Sulphate, CuSO4 5*H20.
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> I find i very difficult to track down any information on the crystal
> structure, the chemical bonds, the position of the crystal water and other
> such thinks.
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> Can anybody help me with a link or a book reference.
>
> Anders Lund
>
> First semester nanotechnology student at Aalborg University
>
> Denmark

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http://www.webmineral.com/data/Chalcanthite.shtml

"Crystallography in modern chemistry. A resource book of crystal
structures"
Thomas CW Mak and Gong-Du Zhou, 1992
Neutron diffraction to locate hydrogens.

First x-ray diffraction on CuSO4.5H20 in 1911 by Max von Laue,
Proc. Bavarian Acad. Sci. 303 (1912)
Reprinted in Naturewissenschaften 39 367 (1952)

Chemische Kristallographie 2 419-421 (1908)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 146 570-582 (1934)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 266 95-108 (1962)

110 : 100 26°05'
110 : 010 53°00'
110 : 021 53°20'
110 : -130 86°52'
100 : 010 79°05'
100 : -111 120°25'
110 : -111 107°49'

Lame bastards. Hopeless in descriptive inorganic is hopeless indeed.

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