Hydrides

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Potassium Hydride (KH)
	Book Figure Animation

Alkali Hydrides (LiH, NaH, KH, RbH, and CsH)
	Book Figure (A) Lithium Hydride; (B) Sodium Hydride; (C) Potassium Hydride; (D) Potassium Hydrino (1/4) Hydride

Calculated and experimental values for the ion separation distances and lattice energies for the ionic bond of hydrides of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium. Calculations are made from exact, closed-form equations containing physical constants only.

References:

1. W. M. Muller, J. P. Blackledge, G. G. Libowitz, Metal Hydrides, Academic Press, New York, (1968), pp. 217-229.

2. J. C. Bailar, H. J. Emeleus, R. Nyholm, A. F. Trotman-Dickenson, (Editors), Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamom Press, (1973), p. 401.