Niobium-bearing arsenides and germanides from elemental mixtures not involving niobium: a new twist to an old problem in solid-state synthesis
Baranets, Sviatoslav; He, Hua; Bobev, Svilen; Acta Crystallographica Section C 74 (2018) 623–627; doi:10.1107/S2053229618005739

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 Niobium-bearing arsenides and germanides from elemental mixtures not
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