12007-84-0Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of Binary and Ternary Actinide Compounds of High Purity to Yield their Oxides.
Larroque,Chipaux,Beauvy
, p. 487 - 496,487 - 496 (1986)
The synthesis of polycrystalline binary and ternary actinide compounds has been developed at CEN-Cadarache to provide samples for research on the physic Physical properties of 5f elements. These compounds, mainly borides and oxychalcogenides, have no magn
Low-temperature synthesis of uranium tetraboride by solid-state metathesis reactions
Lupinetti, Anthony J.,Fife, Julie L.,Garcia, Eduardo,Dorhout, Peter K.,Abney, Kent D.
, p. 2316 - 2318 (2002)
A novel synthesis of uranium tetraboride (UB4) by solid-state metathesis reaction is demonstrated. This approach significantly lowers the temperature required to synthesize this material to ≤850 °C. When UCl4 is reacted with 2 equiv of MgB2 at 850 °C, crystalline UB4 is formed. Powder X-ray diffraction and ICP-AES data support the reduction of UCl4 to UCl3 as the initial step in the reaction. The UB4 product is purified by washing with water.
