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Order of Stability of Metal Complexes

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MELLOR and Maley1,2 have recently pointed out that the stability of complexes of bivalent metal ions follows the order

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IRVING, H., WILLIAMS, R. Order of Stability of Metal Complexes. Nature 162, 746–747 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162746a0

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