Thermochemical tables property prediction

Unlike the 4f elements, for which sesquioxides are ubiquitous, only the sesquioxides of Ac and Pu through Es have been prepared. Sesquioxides of Th through Np are clearly thermodynamically unstable with respect to disproportionation to the metals and the much more stable dioxides. (Those of heavier actinides would be obtainable if their half-lives were much longer and nuclear yields more favorable.) An overview of known actinide oxides, and their enthalpies of formation and standard entropies, was given earlier in Table 14.9 although most of the actinide sesquioxides have been known since before 1970 (Am203 since before 1950), only in the past decade have thermophysical [98] and thermochemical [99] properties been determined. Since the optimum solvent for solution calorimetry of these sesquioxides is moderately concentrated hydrochloric acid, a systematic approach to the prediction of the enthalpies of formation of other sesquioxides is to devise a cycle yielding the enthalpy of solution in infinitely dilute add ... 

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