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Bismuth (V) Aqueous Fluoride Solution

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WE wish to report the preparation and properties of moderately stable solutions of pentavalent bismuth in aqueous fluoride solutions. Apart from brief reports in two early papers1,2, the solution chemistry of Bi(V) has remained unexplored up to now.

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BURSTEIN, G., WRIGHT, G. Bismuth (V) Aqueous Fluoride Solution. Nature 221, 169–170 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221169a0

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