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A study of the properties of uranium hexafluoride in organic solvents

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Studies have been made of the solubility and kinetics of solution of uranium hexafluoride in carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, dichloromethane, asymmetrical dichloroethane,symmetrical tetrachloroethane, pentachloroethane, trifluorotrichloroethane, symmetrical trichloropropane,and tetrachloropropane. It has been shown that solutions of uranium hexafluoride in carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloroethane, pentachloroethane,and trifluorotrichloroethane are completely stable for two weeks at 20 °C; at this temperature solutions of uranium hexafluoride in chloroform, dichloroethane,and dichloromethane are unstable. It has been shown that reactions of uranium hexafluoride with these studied organic solvents at 60–100 °C occur in the following way: at first uranium pentafluoride is formed which is reduced at first to the intermediate uranium fluor ides, containing a large amount of tetravalent uranium.and then to uranium tetrafluoride.

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  1. N. P. Galkin
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  2. B. N. Sudarikov
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  3. V. A. Zaitsev
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Galkin, N.P., Sudarikov, B.N., Zaitsev, V.A. et al. A study of the properties of uranium hexafluoride in organic solvents. The Soviet Journal of Atomic Energy 10, 138–142 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01480219

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