Nuclear properties of the elements

The section on Spectroscopy has been retained but with some revisions and expansion. The section includes ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, fluorescence, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray spectrometry. Detection limits are listed for the elements when using flame emission, flame atomic absorption, electrothermal atomic absorption, argon induction coupled plasma, and flame atomic fluorescence. Nuclear magnetic resonance embraces tables for the nuclear properties of the elements, proton chemical shifts and coupling constants, and similar material for carbon-13, boron-11, nitrogen-15, fluorine-19, silicon-19, and phosphoms-31. 

E)espite substantial recent advances in the organometallic chemistry of other actinide elements, progress with curium has been slow. This lack of progress apparently is due to the nuclear properties of the element rather tlm to an inherent chemical instability of the organometallic compounds. For more detailed discussion of this topic, especially comparison with organometallics containing other actinide metals, the reader is directed to Chapters 22 and 23 of this volume. 

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