Roughly speaking,RbO2 has a crystal structure similar to tetragonalcalcium carbide, but is rather distorted due to theJahn–Teller effect, which makes the crystal structure less symmetrical.[2]
RbO2 is stable in dry air, but is extremelyhygroscopic.[3]
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