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Georg Brauer (Hrsg.), with the collaboration of Marianne Baudler and others: Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry. 3rd, revised edition. Volume I, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN3-432-02328-6, S. 333.