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DURING the course of investigations of solid solutions involving van der Waals solids it was found that sulphur and tin tetraiodide combine readily in carbon disulphide or benzene solution forming a stable compound, the formula of which was determined as SnI4.2S8. The substance is orange in colour, has a measured density of 2.85 g/c.c., and melts at 101° C. It crystallizes either as orthorhombic pyramids by evaporation of a carbon disulphide solution or as third-order prisms by cooling of a saturated benzene solution, leading to the assignment of the point group mm2. (A metastable monoclinic modification of density = 2.80 g/c.c. was also observed during rapid cooling of benzene solutions.)
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HAWES, L. A Semi-bonded Compound in the Series SnI4–S8. Nature 196, 766–767 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196766a0
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