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SUBMITTER: Hennings E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4257414 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20141112 Pt 12
Since the discovery of perchlorate salts on Mars and the known occurrence of ferric salts in the regolith, there is a distinct possibility that the title compound could form on the surface of Mars. [Fe(H2O)6](ClO4)3·3H2O was crystallized from aqueous solutions at low temperatures according to the solid-liquid phase diagram. It consists of Fe(H2O)6 octa-hedra (point group symmetry -3.) and perchlorate anions (point group symmetry .2) as well as non-coordinating water mol-ecules, as part of a seco ...[more]