Monostrontium ruthenate is the
inorganic compound
In chemistry, an inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds, that is, a compound that is not an organic compound. The study of inorganic compounds is a subfield of chemistry known as '' inorganic chemi ...
with the formula SrRuO
3. It is one of two main
strontium ruthenate Strontium ruthenate may refer to two compounds:
* Monostrontium ruthenate, SrRuO3, a ferromagnetic perovskite.
* Distrontium ruthenate, Sr2RuO4, a perovskite superconductor that does not contain copper.
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s, the other having the formula Sr
2RuO
4. SrRuO
3 is a ferromagnetic. It has a
perovskite structure
A perovskite is any material with a crystal structure following the formula ABX3, which was first discovered as the mineral called perovskite, which consists of calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO3). The mineral was first discovered in the Ural m ...
as do many
complex metal oxides with the ABO
3 formula. The Ru
4+ ions occupy the octahedral sites and the larger Sr
2+ ions are distorted 12-coordinate.
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