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Study of chemical species that are in solid phase, either in cases of their properties, or about ways of synthesizing them.

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Does thorium(IV) oxide has a "fluorite" like structure?

here you can find the crystallographic date for $\ce{ThO2}$, which claimed to have fluoride type structure. The following reference provides supporting thermal expansion data for binary oxides with th …
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Why doesn't tantalum and tungsten form amalgam?

Does tantalum or tungsten really form amalgam(s) (with mercury)? By X-ray analysis, G. Jangg and E. Lugscheider in 1973 found that tantalum $(\ce{_{73}Ta})$ or tungsten $(\ce{_{74}W})$ does not form …
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Radius ratio of octahedral interstitial site in BCC lithium

Actualluy it was a mistake. The impurities usually fall into the larger interstitial sites of crystal structures. According to this problem solving chapter, the interstitial sites in FCC and BCC cryst …
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In solid-phase peptide synthesis, why are the formation of aspartimides a problem but not "g...

Since you understand how aspartimides (succinimides) form and why are they a problem in solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), I'm not going to elaborate it further. Your main question is why don't glu …
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Why is the disordered CuAu structure more stable at high temperatures?

I'm not a metallurgist or even not a good physical chemist. However, I'd like to explain what's happening in $\ce{AuCu}$ alloy with temperature and any expert can intervene. According to Ref.1, $\ce{C …
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How to identify if a material is perovskite or not?

As MaxW indicated in the comment, perovskites are a huge family of natural and synthetic compounds. Following is a breif description of the group of compounds named perovskites: The original Perovski …
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Why rutile structure have primitive unit cell instead of body centered?

You said you read that $\ce{MgH2}$ has a structure of rutile. Actually it is $\alpha$-$\ce{MgH2}$, which forms at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and have rutile type structure. The crystal …
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Chemical formula of fluoroapatite

All comments on the subject in this page (vide supra) explain why those two formulas are identical. Since you insist that you need an explanation for them being identical, I'll try my best (I'm not an …
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Formation of strontium peroxide

There are a few method to synthesize $\ce{SrO2}$ from $\ce{SrO}$ and $\ce{O2}$. One of them uses $\ce{KClO3}$ as the source of $\ce{O2}$ [Ref. 1]. The paper is in German but has English abstract which …
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