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Image: Malachite-xtal-hydroxide-O5-coordination-3D-bs-N17-M25

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Description: Ball-and-stick model of the coordination environment of hydroxide (O5 and H2) as found in the crystal structure of malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2 determined by neutron diffraction and reported in Z. Krist. (1977) 145, 412-426 (COD entry 5000043). Colour code:

  Copper, Cu: orange-brown   Carbon, C: grey   Oxygen, O: red   Hydrogen, H: white Model manipulated and image generated in CCDC Mercury 3.8.
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