Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like
Abstract
The production or alloys of beryllium with one or more of the metals uranium, plutonium, actinium, americium, curium, thorium, and cerium is described. A halide salt or the metal to be alloyed with the beryllium is heated at l3O0 deg C in the presence of beryllium to reduce the halide to metal and cause the latter to alloy directly with the beryllium. Although the heavy metal halides are more stable, thermodynamically, than the beryllium halides, the reducing reaction proceeds to completion if the beryllium halide product is continuously removed by vacuum distillation.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Originating Research Org. not identified
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4212404
- Patent Number(s):
- 2875041
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C22 - METALLURGY C22C - ALLOYS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-13-022503
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- METALLURGY AND CERAMICS; ACTINIDES; ACTINIUM COMPOUNDS; AMERICIUM ALLOYS; AMERICIUM COMPOUNDS; BERYLLIUM; BERYLLIUM ALLOYS; BERYLLIUM COMPOUNDS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CURIUM ALLOYS; CURIUM COMPOUNDS; DISTILLATION; HALIDES; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; PREPARATION; REDUCTION; SALTS; THORIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VACUUM
Citation Formats
Runnals, O J.C.. Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like. United States: N. p., 1959.
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Runnals, O J.C.. Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like. United States.
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"Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4212404.
@article{osti_4212404,
title = {Method of making alloys of beryllium with plutonium and the like},
author = {Runnals, O J.C.},
abstractNote = {The production or alloys of beryllium with one or more of the metals uranium, plutonium, actinium, americium, curium, thorium, and cerium is described. A halide salt or the metal to be alloyed with the beryllium is heated at l3O0 deg C in the presence of beryllium to reduce the halide to metal and cause the latter to alloy directly with the beryllium. Although the heavy metal halides are more stable, thermodynamically, than the beryllium halides, the reducing reaction proceeds to completion if the beryllium halide product is continuously removed by vacuum distillation.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1959},
month = {2}
}
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