Rubidium alloy liquid

Rubidium can be liquid at room temperature. It is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali group and is the second most electropositive and alkaline element. It ignites spontaneously in air and reacts violently in water, setting fire to the liberated hydrogen. As with other alkali metals, it forms amalgams with mercury and it alloys with gold, cesium, sodium, and potassium. It colors a flame yellowish violet. Rubidium metal can be prepared by reducing rubidium chloride with calcium, and by a number of other methods. It must be kept under a dry mineral oil or in a vacuum or inert atmosphere. 

Bonilla, C. F., D. L. Sawhuey, and N. M. Makansi, 1962, Vapor Pressure of Alkali Metals III, Rubidium, Cesium, and Sodium-Potassium alloy up to 100 psia, Proc. 1962 High Temperature Liquid MetaI Heat Transfer Tech. Meeting, BNL-756, Brookhaven, NY. (3)... 

One problem in refining cesium is that it is usually found along with rubidium therefore, the two elements must be separated after they are extracted from their sources. The main process to produce cesium is to finely grind its ores and then heat the mix to about 600°C along with liquid sodium, which produces an alloy of Na, Cs, and Ru, which are separated by fractional distillation. Cesium can also be produced by the thermochemical reduction of a mixture of cesium chloride (CsCl) and calcium (Ca). 

The results have been reported of a comparative study of the measured electrical resistivities of liquid alkali metals and alloys, and the theoretical predictions for this quantity obtained within the diffraction model.48 The composition dependence of the Knight shifts in Na-Cs, Na-Rb, K-Rb-Cs, and Na-Rb-Cs liquid alloys has also been examined.49 Addition of small quantities of rubidium (0.3—4.51 atom %) to liquid sodium increases the electrical resistivity almost linearly with increasing solute concentration. With increasing temperature from 100 to 1100 °C, the effect of rubidium on the resistivity of sodium progressively diminishes.50 Addition of the solutes Hg, Tl, and Pb increases the resistivity of liquid potassium linearly with both increasing concentration and temperature. The unit increases in resistivity/pfl cm (atom%) , are 8.80, 9.85, and 15.8 for Hg, Tl, and Pb,... 

SULFUROUS OXIDE (7446-09-5) SO, Noncombustible liquefied gas under pressure or liquid. Contact with air forms hydrogen chloride fumes. Violent reaction with water or steam, forming sulfurous acid, a medium-strong acid and corrosion hazard. Reacts violently with acetylene, acrolein, alcohols, aluminum powder alkali metals (i.e., potassium, sodium) amines, ammonia, bromine pentafluoride butadiene caustics, cesium acetylene carbide chlorates, chlorine trifluoride chromium powder copper or copper alloy powders chlorine, diethylzinc, fluorine, ethylene oxide lead dioxide lithium acetylene carbide diamino-, metal powders monolithium acetylide-ammonia nitryl chloride potassium acetylene carbide potassium acetylide, potassium chlorate rubidium carbide silver azide sodium acetylide staimous oxide. Decon oses in... 

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