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Experimental study of density and thermal expansion of the advanced materials and heat transfer agents for liquid metal systems of thermonuclear reactor: Lithium

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Using the gamma-ray attenuation technique, the density of the condensed state of lithium is measured within the range from room temperature up to ∼700 K. The purity of the investigated lithium is as high as 99.95 mass %. The confidence error of experiments is within 0.3%. From the experimental results, the volume thermal expansion coefficient of lithium is calculated within a wide temperature interval. The experimental data obtained on thermal properties of the solid and liquid state of lithium are compared to those available in the literature.

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  1. S.S. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    S. V. Stankus & R. A. Khairulin

  2. Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Izhorskaya 13, str. 2, Moscow, 125412, Russia

    A. G. Mozgovoi

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Stankus, R.A. Khairulin, A.G. Mozgovoi, 2011, published in Teplofizika Vysokikh Temperatur, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 196–200.

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Stankus, S.V., Khairulin, R.A. & Mozgovoi, A.G. Experimental study of density and thermal expansion of the advanced materials and heat transfer agents for liquid metal systems of thermonuclear reactor: Lithium. High Temp 49, 187–192 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0018151X11010214

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