BARIUM HYDROXIDE Octahydrate 98% AR (500 GM)

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It crystallises as the octahydrate, which converts to the monohydrate upon heating in air. At 100 C in a vacuum, the monohydrate will yield BaO and water.^[3] The monohydrate adopts a layered structure (see picture above). The Ba²⁺ centers adopt a square antiprismatic geometry. Each Ba²⁺ center is bound by two water ligands and six hydroxide ligands, which are respectively doubly and triply bridging to neighboring Ba²⁺ centre sites.^[4] In the octahydrate, the individual Ba²⁺ centers are again eight coordinate but do not share ligands.^[5]