Handbook of Hydrogen Storage (New Materials for Future Energy Storage) || Metal Hydrides

✍ Scribed by Hirscher, Michael

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 540 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3527322736
• DOI: 10.1002/9783527629800.ch4

✦ Synopsis

Covalent metal hydrides are compounds of hydrogen and non-metals. Here, atoms of similar electronegativities share electron pairs. In general, covalent hydrides have low melting and boiling points. Because of the weak van der Waals forces between

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