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Alumane
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Aluminium hydride.
Aluminium hydride (also known as alane and alumane) refers to a collection of inorganic compounds with the formulaAlH3. As a gas, alane is a planar molecule. When generated in ether solutions, it exists as an ether adduct. Solutions of alane polymerize to solids, which exist in several crystallographically distinguishable forms.