Trisodium pentaborate


Trisodium pentaborate is a salt that can form as a monohydrate with formula, which contains the anion dihydroxydopentaborate.
Its formula may be incorrectly given as, or as. It may also be called simply sodium pentaborate, but this name is more properly reserved for the compound with elemental formula.

Structure

Trisodium pentaborate monohydrate crystallizes as thin plates in the orthorhombic crystal system, with symmetry group Pbca and cell parameters a = 880.4 pm, b = 1837.1 pm, c = 1092.4 pm, formulas per cell Z = 8.