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What is a carborane?

What is a carborane? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds of boron, mostly having a polyhedral structure.
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They would like to use their carborane acids to bind protons to atoms of the inert gas xenon.
The best-studied carborane is ortho-carborane, C2B10H12, made by reaction of acetylene with decaborane in the presence of diethyl sulfide.

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