Talk:Scandium(III) hydride

Laser ablated Scandium

The reaction most probably occurs in the matrix. I can't tell from the abstract what temperature they are at, but it is low, as they are co-condensing into argon. The stability of any of these species is extremely low and they probably don't survive warming up to anything near room temperature. You might want to point that out.JSR (talk) 13:16, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Further on this issue. Andrews work is almost all matrix isolation spectroscopy. All of this chemistry took place in an solid argon matrix at liquid nitrogen temperatures. There is no proof that scandium trihydride exists as a gas, therefore your reaction showing it in a gaseous state is incorrect or at least not proven.JSR (talk) 13:16, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Scandium trihydride

The molecular monomer bond lengths and bond angles are these calcualted or experimentally determined, and if experimental under what conditions?

ScH₃ is rightly or wrongly used to describe the high pressure phase with composition approx ScH_2.9. The interesting observation is the change in material conduction when going from (non-stoich.)ScH₂ to ScH₃, ScH₂ is metallic ScH₃ is not(doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.064132) (doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/5/057102). The phases are described slightly diffently in the second more recent reference.Axiosaurus (talk) 12:54, 18 September 2013 (UTC)