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Here is link to the structures mentioned. They are taken from ICSD and the Crystallography Open Database and made available using CrystalWorks technology:

https://cds.dl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/rfm/crystalworks_trawl_new?4636_4267_1835

The "lead suboxide" from 1926 is given for both the ICSD & COD. They are interpreted as having differing space group symmetry.

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Bob McMeeking May 30

@morgrugyn @sellathechemist

I think batteries in general bear a grudge against me - the one in my mobile device just ran out...

As somebody with a magneto/coordination background I have weak knowledge of pure inorganic systems, especially involving main group elements such as lead.

Pb2O would be quite a coup. If the 1926 crystal structure is correct it it would be two coordinate Pb+1

Or possible an electride!!!

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Anna Anthro 11h ago

Three merchant ships with Indian crews fired on by US forces in Strait of Hormuz. One vessel has been sunk.

Crew dead or wounded. Oman rescuers save dozens.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlw3k5l3k4o

Three ships attacked by the US in three days: What we know

Three tankers have been struck by the US military over the past three days, killing at least three people.

Bob McMeeking 11h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luddchem/116662483336489842

Today's #365Minerals entry is Wulfenite

#365Minerals

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Byline Times 14h ago

All US Options for Ending the Iran War Are Terrible, Warns US Defence Analyst

Every realistic path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war in Iran would be catastrophic, argues Brynn Tannehill....

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/11/all-us-options-for-ending-the-iran-war-are-terrible-warns-us-defence-analyst/

All US Options for Ending the Iran War Are Terrible, Warns US Defence Analyst

Every realistic path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war in Iran would be catastrophic, argues Brynn Tannehill.

Byline Times

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George Pearkes 17h ago

Will they? Who knows! But that's what he said.

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George Pearkes 17h ago

Trump announces the US is planning to invade Iran.

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Philip Ball 20h ago

I'm really looking forward to this event in a couple of weeks. www.beilstein-institut.de/en/symposia/...

Dialogues - Representation and...

Dialogues - Representation and Reality - Beilstein-Institut

Bob McMeeking 20h ago

JuneSim63 💚23h ago

"I get that a lot of people don’t actually care about the climate or Palestine, so they aren’t getting upset right now. But when you are trying to speak up for something you care more about, and find you can’t, you will wish you had stood with us.”

#Protest #Repression #UKPolotics
Labour’s workaday repression of protest doesn’t alarm us. But it should
https://www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-walter-column-protest-palestine-action-sentencing-terrorist-connection-elbit

Natasha Walter: Labour’s workaday repression of protest doesn’t alarm us. But it should

If a far-right government detained activists for months without trial and declared them terrorists, there would be outrage. But Palestine and climate campaigners are being treated like this in a social democracy, writes the author and columnist

The Nerve

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HarriettMB 21h ago

It is clearly a #racist #pogrom in #NI. What has been the response by #Starmer? To increase checks in the Common Travel Area per the demands of the sectarian, bigoted, racist #DUP & #TUV leaders. It won’t be enough for them; as they have always demanded the return of a Hard Border for the six counties.
Belfast protests today: Stephen Ogilvie’s family ‘disgusted’ at second night of riots as homes attacked and vehicles set alight | Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/nurse-with-different-skin-colour-chased-into-hospital-by-masked-men-and-12-police-officers-injured-during-second-night-of-violence/a/156285563.html

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