Lead tetragonal

In general, the chemistry of inorganic lead compounds is similar to that of the alkaline-earth elements. Thus the carbonate, nitrate, and sulfate of lead are isomorphous with the corresponding compounds of calcium, barium, and strontium. In addition, many inorganic lead compounds possess two or more crystalline forms having different properties. For example, the oxides and the sulfide of bivalent lead are frequendy colored as a result of their state of crystallisation. Pure, tetragonal a-PbO is red pure, orthorhombic P PbO is yeUow and crystals of lead sulfide, PbS, have a black, metallic luster. 

Tin exists in two ahotropic forms white tin (P) and gray tin (a). White tin, the form which is most familiar, crystallizes in the body-centered tetragonal system. Gray tin has a diamond cubic stmcture and may be formed when very high purity tin is exposed to temperatures well below zero. The ahotropic transformation is retarded if the tin contains smah amounts of bismuth, antimony, or lead. The spontaneous appearance of gray tin is a rare occurrence because the initiation of transformation requires, in some cases, years of exposure at —40° C. Inoculation with a-tin particles accelerates the transformation. 

The addition of MgO leads to the formation of a naiTow range of solid solutions at high temperamre, which decompose to precipitate inclusions of tetragonal Zr02 dispersed in cubic zirconia. The material, which functions as a solid electrolyte, has the added advantage that the inclusions stop the propagation of any cracks which may arise from rapid temperature change. 

The measures of solid state reactivity to be described include experiments on solid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-solid chemical reaction, solid-solid structural transitions, and hot pressing-sintering in the solid state. These conditions are achieved in catalytic activity measurements of rutile and zinc oxide, in studies of the dissolution of silicon nitride and rutile, the reaction of lead oxide and zirconia to form lead zirconate, the monoclinic to tetragonal transformation in zirconia, the theta-to-alpha transformation in alumina, and the hot pressing of aluminum nitride and aluminum oxide. 

Fig. 10. Analysis of the atomic lattice images of the lead compound entering CNTs by capillary forces (a)detailed view of the high resolution image of the filling material, (b)tetragonal PbO atomic arrangement, note the layered structure and (c)tetragonal PbO observed in the [111] direction, note that the distribution of lead atoms follows the contrast pattern observable in (a), (d)bidimensional projection of the deduced PbO filling orientation inside CNTs as viewed in the tube axis direction, note that PbO layers are parallel to the cylindrical CNT cavity.

A similar transformation to a metallic, tetragonal -form can be effected in Si and Ge by subjecting them to pressures of 200 and I20kbar respectively along the c-axis, and again the density increases by 25% from the value at atmospheric pressure. Lead is familiar as a blue-grey, malleable metal with a fairly high density (nearly 5 times that of Si and twice those of Ge and Sn, but only half that of Os and Ir). 

Much confusion exists concerning the number, composition, and structure of the oxides of lead. PbO exists as a red tetragonal form (litharge) stable at room temperature and a yellow orthorhombic form (massicot) stable above 488°C. Litharge (mp 897°, d 9.355 gcm ) is not only the most important oxide of Pb, it is also the most widely used inorganic compound of Pb (see Panel on p. 386) it is made by reacting molten Pb with air or O2 above 600° and has the SnO structure (p. 383, Pb-O 230 pm). Massicot (d 9.642 gcm ) has... 

The magnetic FeaNi system was modeled in a tetragonal symmetry with 4 atoms per unit cell (see Fig. la). The CuZn alloy was also considered to have a tetragonal unit cell, in this case c/a = 1 leads to a CsCl structure, which was shown in Fig. lb. 

Calcium hydroxide leached from incompletely cured concrete causes serious corrosion of lead (see Section 9.3). This is because carbon dioxide reacts with the lime solution to form calcium carbonate, which is practically insoluble. Carbonate ions are therefore not available to form a passive film on the surface of the lead . Typically, thick layers of PbO are formed, which may show seasonal rings of litharge (tetragonal PbO) and massicot (orthorhombic PbO) . 

When 0.4 < x < 0.53, an orthorhombic phase is observed in the AgxNb02+xFi.x system. This phase undergoes a phase transition at 900°C that leads to the formation of a tetragonal phase, which crystallizes in a tetragonal tungsten bronze-type structure with cell parameters a = 12.343 and c = 3.905 A. When 0.82 < x < 1, solid solutions based on AgNb03 were found, which crystallize in a perovskite-type structure. 

That w changes with phase has been shown49 for the tetragonal CuAu superlattice and the face-centered cubic solid solution from measurements of the enthalpies of formation of these two phases. Such measurements for the f.c.c. phase lead to w = 373 cal/g atom, in good agreement with the 350 cal/g atom derived by... 

The foregoing discussion leads to the conclusion that static deformations as well as phonons should be stabilized for superconducting metals by the change in effective radius associated with unsynchronized resonance of electron-pair bonds. Deformation from cubic to tetragonal symmetry, presumably the result of this interaction, has been reported for VsSi at temperatures below 21 K26- 27 and for Nb2Sn at temperatures below 43°K.28... 

The tetragonal distortion of the ccp structure also leads to the bcc structure. 

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