Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Sodium borohydride also known as sodium tetrahydridoborate is an inorganic compound with the formula NaBH4. This white solid usually encountered as a powder is a versatile reducing agent that finds wide application in chemistry both in the laboratory and on a technical scale. Large amounts are used for bleaching wood pulp. The compound is soluble in alcohols and certain ethers but reacts with water in the absence of a base.The compound was discovered in the 1940s by H. I.
