Some Physical Properties of Actinide Metals

Actinide metal Crystal structure Density (g/cm ) Atomic volume (A ) Melting point (K) Enthalpy of vaporization AH, g (kJ/mol) 

The authors wish to thank the following colleagues for their cooperation and assistance in preparing this chapter J. Reavis, J. Ward, C. Herrick, D. Christensen, and L. Mullins of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico F. Schmidt and J. Smith of the Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa R. Haire of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee and J. Fuger of the European Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, FRG. 

This research has been sponsored in part by the Commission of the European Communities and in part by the Division of Chemical Sciences, United States Department of Energy under contracts DE-AS05-76ER04447 with the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), DE-AC05-840R21400 with Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., and W-7405-ENG-36 with the University of California. 

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Asprey, L. B., paper presented at the Third International Transplutonium Element Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, October 20-22,1971. 

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