“…However, no structure of any hydrated or anhydrous alkaline vanadoborate has been established, which may con"rm the proposed formula; only some unindexed X-ray di!raction powder patterns were given, leaving a serious doubt about their existence. The compounds Ni VBO (11) and Ni VB O (12), which belong to the ludwigite type (M, M 2 ) O BO , where the metal ions (M, M 2 ) can be dior trivalent, are not considered because vanadium has an oxidation state di!erent from "ve. We have undertaken the study of sodium vanadoborates starting from the results published on the NaBO }V O binary system (7); two compounds were described: 3Na…”