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The chemistry of these two industrially important metals bears a close general resemblance to that of niobium and tantalum. There is the same emphasis on the highest oxidation state, in this case six. Common to both pairs of metals are such important features as polymeric oxyanions, metal-metal bonding in lower halides, formation of bronzes, a certain paucity of classical co-ordination compounds with a resulting prominence of the binary halide chemistry, and lack of hydrated cations.
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Cotton, S.A., Hart, F.A. (1975). Molybdenum and Tungsten. In: The Heavy Transition Elements. A Macmillan Chemistry Text. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15591-0_3
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