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Aluminium hydride
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<p>Aluminium hydride (also known as alane and alumane) refers to a collection of <a href="/facts/Inorganic_compound/TfFfzxSz">inorganic compounds</a> with the <a href="/facts/Chemical_formula/hghUtthl">formula</a> <a href="/facts/Aluminium/7wmR8jYE">Al</a><a href="/facts/Hydrogen/BoYHjl0J">H</a>3. As a gas, alane is a planar molecule. When generated in ether solutions, it exists as an ether adduct. Solutions of alane polymerizes to a solid, which exists in several crystallographically distinguishable forms. </p>