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The objective of Materials Chemistry is to provide an overview of the various types of materials, with a focus on synthetic methodologies and relationships between the structure of a material and its overall properties. Each chapter will feature a section entitled Important Materials Applications that will describe an interesting current/future application related to a particular class of material. Topics for these sections include fuel cells, depleted uranium, solar cells, self-healing plastics, and molecular machines e.g., artificial muscles). 

Gr. helios, the sun). Janssen obtained the first evidence of helium during the solar eclipse of 1868 when he detected a new line in the solar spectrum. Lockyer and Frankland suggested the name helium for the new element. In 1895 Ramsay discovered helium in the uranium mineral clevite while it was independently discovered in cleveite by the Swedish chemists Cleve and Langlet at about the same time. Rutherford and Royds in 1907 demonstrated that alpha particles are helium nuclei. 

Sodium nitrate is also used in formulations of heat-transfer salts for he at-treatment baths for alloys and metals, mbber vulcanization, and petrochemical industries. A mixture of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate is used to capture solar energy (qv) to transform it into electrical energy. The potential of sodium nitrate in the field of solar salts depends on the commercial development of this process. Other uses of sodium nitrate include water (qv) treatment, ice melting, adhesives (qv), cleaning compounds, pyrotechnics, curing bacons and meats (see Food additives), organics nitration, certain types of pharmaceutical production, refining of some alloys, recovery of lead, and production of uranium. 

It is estimated that the earth s age is in the neighborhood of 4 to 7 billion years. These estimates are basically derived from carbon-14, potassium-40, uranium-235, and uranium-238 dating of earth rocks and meteorites. The meteorites give important data as to the age of our solar system. Geologic time is felt to be represented by the presence of rock intervals in the geologic column (layers of rock formations in vertical depth) or by the absence of equivalent rocks in correlative columns in adjacent locations [25,26]. The two basic factors that are used to determine geologic time are ... 

In 1894, the Scottish chemist William Ramsay removed nitrogen and oxygen from air through chemical reactions. From the residue, Ramsay Isolated argon, the first noble gas to be discovered. A year after discovering argon, Ramsay obtained an unreactive gas from uranium-containing mineral samples. The gas exhibited the same spectral lines that had been observed in the solar eclipse of 1868. After helium was shown to exist on Earth, this new element was studied and characterized. 

Many scientists thought that Earth must have formed as long as 3.3 billion years ago, but their evidence was confusing and inconsistent. They knew that some of the lead on Earth was primordial, i.e., it dated from the time the planet formed. But they also understood that some lead had formed later from the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. Different isotopes of uranium decay at different rates into two distinctive forms or isotopes of lead lead-206 and lead-207. In addition, radioactive thorium decays into lead-208. Thus, far from being static, the isotopic composition of lead on Earth was dynamic and constantly changing, and the various proportions of lead isotopes over hundreds of millions of years in different regions of the planet were keys to dating Earth s past. A comparison of the ratio of various lead isotopes in Earth s crust today with the ratio of lead isotopes in meteorites formed at the same time as the solar system would establish Earth s age. Early twentieth century physicists had worked out the equation for the planet s age, but they could not solve it because they did not know the isotopic composition of Earth s primordial lead. Once that number was measured, it could be inserted into the equation and blip, as Patterson put it, out would come the age of the Earth. ... 

Harrison Brown understood enough about the geochemistry of uranium and meteorites to realize that the lead in iron meteorites should be primordial, unchanged since the solar system formed. So he went looking for a student familiar enough with mass spectroscopy to analyze the isotopes in the lead in ancient iron meteorites and in modern rocks. He found Patterson. 

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The conclusions of Hurt s study of year-by-year oxygen isotope ratios in 72 years of S. gigantea are thus supportive of the conclusions of the CIAP study [49] that solar variations influence the abundances of many kinds of chemical species in the stratosphere, and therefore influence the.amount of solar energy they absorb and re-radiate to earth, and therefore influence the surface temperature of the earth and especially the surface temperatures of the oceans. It is the surface temperature of the oceans which produces the phenomena we have discussed the isotope ratio variations in rain and hence in tree rings, the isotope ratio variations in the Greenland ice cap, in the organic carbon and uranium concentrations in sea cores, and furthermore variations of the sea surface temperature produces variations in the carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio fractionation at the sea air interface and hence in the carbon-14 content of atmospheric carbon dioxide and hence in the carbon-14 content of tree rings. 

One notes the large difference in amounts available, not only between available fossil resources, but also for the renewables. The amounts of coal are close to eight times those of oil, comparable to our uranium resources. The amounts of natural gas available are slightly less. If one compares these amounts with the current use of renewables as wind, solar and photosynthesis production, it is clear that fossil fuel resources will stay with us for a very long time. 

Russell WA, Papanastassiou DA, Tombrello TA (1978b) Ca isotope fractionation on the Earth and other solar system materials. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 42 1075-1090 Scharer U, Allegre CJ (1982) Uranium-lead system in fragments of a single zircon grain. Nature 295 585-587... 

Helium - the atomic number is 2 and the chemical symbol is He. The name derives from the Greek helios for sun . The element was discovered by spectroscopy during a solar eclipse in the sun s chromosphere by the French astronomer Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen in 1868. It was independently discovered and named helium by the English astronomer Joseph Norman Lockyer. It was thought to be only a solar constituent until it was later found to be identical to the helium in the uranium ore cleveite by the Scottish chemist William Ramsay in 1895. Ramsay originally called his gas krypton, until it was identified as helium. The Swedish chemists Per Theodore Cleve and Nils Abraham Langet independently found helium in cleveite at about the same time. 

Neptunium - the atomic niunber is 93 and the chemical symbol is Np. The name derives from the planet Neptune (the Roman god of the sea), since it is the next outer-most planet beyond the planet uranus in the solar system and this element is the next one beyond uranium in the periodic table.lt was first synthesized by Edwin M. McMillan and Philip H. Abelson in 1940 via the nuclear reaction n, y) U P = p. The longest half-life associated with this mistable... 

Of some interest is that after uranium ( jU) was named after the planet Uranus, neptunium (jjNp), which was discovered next, was named after Neptune, the next planet in our solar system. And Anally, plutonium (g4Pu) the next transuranic element discovered, was named after Pluto, the last planet discovered so far in our solar system. 

Neptunium, the first transuranium element, was discovered hy E. M. McMdlan and P. H. Ahelson in 1940 in Berkeley, California. It was produced in the cyclotron in a nuclear reaction by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons. An isotope of mass 239 and atomic number 93 and ti/2 of 2.4 days was produced in this reaction. Neptunium-237, the longest-lived alpha-emitter with half-life 2.14x10 years, was discovered two years later in 1942 by Wahl and Seaborg. The new element was named after the planet Neptune, the planet next to Uranus in the solar system. 

The abundance of niobium in the earth s crust is estimated to be in the range 20 mg/kg and its average concentration in sea water is 0.01 mg/L. The metal also is found in the solar system including the lunar surface. Radionucleides niobium-94 and -95 occur in the fission products of uranium-235. 

Sir William Crookes, 1832-1919. English physicist and chemist Professor at the Royal College of Chemistry. Inventor of the radiometer and the spinthariscope Founder and editor of Chemical News. He was the first to observe the green line of thaUium and the first to prove the identity of solar and terrestrial helium, The discoverer of uranium Xi. 

Joseph Lockyer (1836-1920) was one of the pioneers of solar spectroscopy. In examining the spectra of solar prominences in 1869, Lockyer noticed an absorption line that he could not identify. Reasoning that it represented an element not present on Earth, he proposed a new element - helium, from the Greek word helios for Sun. This idea failed to achieve acceptance from Lockyer s scientific colleagues until a gas having the same mysterious spectral line was found 25 years later in rocks. The helium in terrestrial uranium ore formed as a decay product of radioactive uranium. Thus, this abundant element was first discovered in the Sun, rather than in the laboratory. Lockyer s cosmochemical discovery was recognized by the British government, which created a solar physics laboratory for him. Lockyer also founded the scientific journal Nature, which he edited for 50 years. 

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