Does Ferric Hydroxide - Fe(OH)3 exist and why does OLI model it?
A question was raised by a user:
I have always questions, probably because my knowledge of inorganic chemistry is superficial. I read in the book "De la solution à l'oxyde" by Jean-Pierre Jolivet (2015), "Fe(OH)3 does not exist". The same thing is written in "Metal Oxide Chemistry and Synthesis: From Solution to Solid State", which seems to be the english version of same book. I find also the same sentence in "Proceedings - Soil Science Society of America", all these sources say that various forms of ferrihydrite FeOOH is generated by precipitation but not Fe(OH)3."
OLI Systems' response (user: pwang : Peiming Wang)