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One of the most interesting properties of boron is its ability to combine with itself to form polyhedral structures. Of the various polyhedral forms, those in which boron atoms occupy the twelve vertices of an icosahedron or cubo-octahedron are the most common, although an octahedral unit consisting of six boron atoms at the vertices is well known and is characteristic of the hexaborides and tetraborides. This review is concerned with establishing the structural determinants which are common to the borides and modifications of boron which contain B12 polyhedral units. In addition, the case of the tetraborides is considered in some detail, since it is in this system that the polyhedral boron units cease to act as the structural determinant.
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Matkovich, V.I., Economy, J. (1977). Structural Determinants in the Higher Borides. In: Matkovich, V.I. (eds) Boron and Refractory Borides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66620-9_7
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