Conclusions
The thermal decomposition of KB3H8 in vacuum at 150‡ forms 9-pentaborane and potassium hydridoborate followed by partial reaction between the latter to form K2B12H12.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1629–1632, July, 1984.
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Levichev, M.D., Titov, L.V. Thermal decomposition of potassium octahydridotriborate. Russ Chem Bull 33, 1495–1497 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00956535
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