Magnesium nickel hydride is the chemical compound with formula . It is a reddish-brown crystalline solid. It contains 3.6% by weight of hydrogen and has been studied as a potential hydrogen storage medium.
Synthesis The compound can be obtained by heating magnesium and nickel metal powders in hydrogen.
The intermetallic compound reacts with hydrogen at to yield .https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic50069a016
Structure It consists of cations and anions. It is in a form of a monoclinic crystals that transform into the cubic crystals at .https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic50223a006
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