The crystal structure of barium decavanadate nonadecahydrate, Ba-3[V10
O28].19H(2)O, has been determined. The polyanion consists of ten disto
rted VO6 edge-sharing octahedra and has a well established structure.
There are two crystallographically independent decavanadate anions in
the asymmetric unit, located around the centres of inversion at 1/2,0,
0 and 0,1/2,1/2. Each of the three Ba2+ cations is surrounded by nine
O atoms from water molecules and [V10O28](6-) anions in a distorted sq
uare antiprism with one additional vertex.