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Offline Typhus

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Tin (II) Carbide and Tin (IV) Carbide
« on: December 06, 2009, 04:34:39 PM »
What are the chemical formulas for Tin (II) Carbide and Tin (IV) Carbide?

I had thought Tin (IV) Carbide was SnC
and Tin (II) Carbide was Sn2C
however I was marked wrong on a test and cant seem to find the formulas online anywhere.

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Re: Tin (II) Carbide and Tin (IV) Carbide
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2009, 04:49:54 PM »
that was a trick question:

This is what I found from wikipedia:

Some metals, such as lead and tin, are believed not to form carbides under any circumstances. There exists however a mixed titanium-tin carbide, which is a two-dimensional conductor.[6] (In 2007 there were two reports of a lead carbide PbC2, apparently of the acetylide type; but these claims have yet to be published in reviewed journals.)
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Re: Tin (II) Carbide and Tin (IV) Carbide
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2009, 06:30:28 PM »
Actually its not a trick question

I need a theoretical formula for each of those two compounds.

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Re: Tin (II) Carbide and Tin (IV) Carbide
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2009, 05:57:58 AM »
It seems only SnC is known (though not referred in wikipedia)
http://www.americanelements.com/snc.html

From a formal point of view Sn2C is a formula of tin(II) carbide.
Other formal formulas: SnC2 for tin(II) acetylenide and Sn2C3 for tin(II) sesquicarbide but all these three compounds are not known so far.
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