The Tantalate Complexes

From strongly addic solutions benzoin-a-oxime precipitates molybdate and tungstate ions quantitatively chromate, vanadate, niobate, tantalate, and palladium) II) are partially predpitated. The molybdate complex is best ignited at 500-525 °C to Mo03 before weighing alternatively, the predpitate may be dissolved in ammonia solution and the molybdenum predpitated as lead molybdate, in which form it is conveniently weighed. 

The reaction of phosphorus pentachloride with ammonium chloride is tantalizingly complex and has been the subject of numerous investigations (21). Cyclic oligomers and linear products are formed, and... 

Only Mg4Ta209 has been reinvestigated more in detaiH X This study, however, has only revealed the very complicated nature of the luminescence of Mg4Ta2O9 due to the presence of various types of tantalate complexes. 

Brookhart and co-workers recently reported tantalizing results that were close to constituting true copolymerizations of ethylene and methyl acrylate. ° ° The catalyst employed was the palladium version of the diimine complexes that were previously reported for ethylene and a-olefin homopolymerizations (complexes IV). °° The close qualification... 

Simple ABO compounds in addition to BaTiO are cadmium titanate [12014-14-17, CdTiO lead titanate [12060-00-3] PbTiO potassium niobate [12030-85-2] KNbO sodium niobate [12034-09-2], NaNbO silver niobate [12309-96-5], AgNbO potassium iodate [7758-05-6], KIO bismuth ferrate [12010-42-3], BiFeO sodium tantalate, NaTaO and lead zirconate [12060-01 -4], PbZrO. The perovskite stmcture is also tolerant of a very wide range of multiple cation substitution on both A and B sites. Thus many more complex compounds have been found (16,17), eg, (K 2 i/2) 3 ... 

Since niobates and tantalates belong to the octahedral ferroelectric family, fluorine-oxygen substitution has a particular importance in managing ferroelectric properties. Thus, the variation in the Curie temperature of such compounds with the fluorine-oxygen substitution rate depends strongly on the crystalline network, the ferroelectric type and the mutual orientation of the spontaneous polarization vector, metal displacement direction and covalent bond orientation [47]. Hence, complex tantalum and niobium fluoride compounds seem to have potential also as new materials for modem electronic and optical applications. 

Tantalum powder is produced by reduction of potassium heptafluoro-tantalate, K2TaF7, dissolved in a molten mixture of alkali halides. The reduction is performed at high temperatures using molten sodium. The process and product performance are very sensitive to the melt composition. There is no doubt that effective process control and development of powders with improved properties require an understanding of the complex fluoride chemistry of the melts. For instance, it is very important to take into account that changes both in the concentration of potassium heptafluorotantalate and in the composition of the background melt (molten alkali halides) can initiate cardinal changes in the complex structure of the melt itself. 

Other contributions to this book have taken a molecular view of parasitic nematodes, yet molecules make only a rather brief appearance here. This chapter has tried to show that parasitic nematodes are fascinatingly and tantalizingly diverse at a phenotypic level. It has focused particularly on diversity in phenotypes that are apparent in response to environmental conditions within or outside a host. The interaction of parasites with within-host factors is a major current research effort. However, helminth immunology is particularly notable for its inattention to diversity, especially when compared with the immunology of parasitic protozoa (Read and Viney, 1996). Observations of the interaction of host immunity with subsequent development in S. ratti show the potential power of such interactions. It is also clear that a principal mechanism of the action of host immune responses is against nematode fecundity (Stear et al., 1997). This is likely to be a molecularly complex interaction. Understanding this interaction, as well as variation in the interaction is interesting, but could also form the basis of control by transmission-reduction rather than eradication per se. 

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