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Two aspects of the structure of tetragonal calcium oxalate (weddellite), namely: (1) that the oxalate ion has the symmetry mmm; (2) that the crystalline salt has a water content of 2 + zeolitic X H2O (X ≤ 0.5) (ref. 1), can be examined further. Klasens, Perdok and Terpstra2 described tetragonal strontium oxalate as being isomorphic with weddellite, but they gave the number of molecules of water in the former as 2.5 and in the latter as 3.
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Sterling, C., Science, 146, 518 (1964).
Klasens, H. A., Perdok, W. G., and Terpstra, P., Z. Kristallogr., A, 96, 227 (1937).
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STERLING, C. Crystal-structure of Tetragonal Strontium Oxalate. Nature 205, 588–589 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205588a0
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