The Rare Earths in Modern Science and Technology: Volume 2

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
The Frank H. Spedding Award Address Studies of Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds and Rare Earth Hydrides....Pages 1-12
From Infinity to Zero and Back Again to Infinity (From Mixed Rare Earths to Ultrapure Metals to Pseudo-Lanthanides)....Pages 13-23
Determination of the Effective Segregation Coefficient of Oxygen in Terbium During Zone Refining....Pages 25-30
Electrowinning of Gadolinium Metal Below 1, 000° C....Pages 31-32
Zone Refining of High Purity Ce and Gd Metals....Pages 33-37
Intermetallic Compounds in R.E.(Al,Ga) 2 and R.E.(Cu,Ga) 2 Alloys....Pages 39-44
Equilibrium Relations Among Magnetic Phases in Mischmetal Cobalt Systems....Pages 45-50
Mixed Halide Phases in the Chloride-Iodide Systems of Lanthanum and Gadolinium....Pages 51-52
Preparation and Purification of GdCl 3 ....Pages 53-58
Solid-State Reactions of Some Lanthanide Orthophosphates with Sodium Carbonate....Pages 59-64
Preparation and Thermal Studies of a Cerium (III) Sulfite-Sulfate-Hydrate....Pages 65-66
Synthesis and Characterization of RE(Se 2 O 5 )NO 3 ·3H 2 O, A New Series of Rare Earth Compounds....Pages 67-68
Binding of Lanthanides and Actinides by Polyelectrolytes....Pages 69-76
The Trend of the Eu 3+ - Ligand Bonding in Covalent and Ionic Rare-Earth Compounds....Pages 77-82
Study of Complex Formation of the Lanthanides by Means of Fluorescence Spectroscopy....Pages 83-86
Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD) of Lanthanides: Study of the Eu 3+ Ion in Aqueous Solution....Pages 87-92
Solvent Effects on Erbium Chloride Complexation Reactions....Pages 93-98
Complexes of the Heavier Lanthanoid Nitrates with Crown Ethers....Pages 99-104
Spectra and Redox Photochemistry of Crown Ether Complexes of Lanthanides....Pages 105-110
New Approaches to the Study of Lanthanide/Actinide Chloride - Aluminum Chloride Vapor Phase Complexes....Pages 111-116
Effect of Temperature on the Stability of Fluoro Complexes of the Rare Earth Elements in Fluorite Bearing Model System....Pages 117-120
Stability Constants of Rare-Earth Complexes with Some Organic Ligands....Pages 121-126
Crystal Field Parameters for Eu(III) in Lanthanide Perchlorates with Hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA)....Pages 127-131
Solvation of Eu(III) and Tb(III) Ions in Anhydrous CH 3 CN DMF....Pages 133-138
Yttrium Purification by Solvent Extraction....Pages 139-145
Trigonal Prismatic Versus Octahedral Coordination: The Crystal and Molecular Structures of Dy{S 2 P(C 6 H 11 ) 2 } 3 and Lu{S 2 P(C 6 H 11 ) 2 } 3 ....Pages 147-152
Crystal Chemistry of the Europium Pnictides....Pages 153-158
Absorption Spectrophotometric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of NdI 3 , NdOI and SmI 3 ....Pages 159-164
Solid State Chemistry in the Fluorites and its Influence on the Spectroscopy....Pages 165-166
New Anion-Excess, Fluorite-Related Superstructure Phases in LnF 2 -LnF 3 , CaF 2 -YF 3 , and Related Systems....Pages 167-171
Structural Chemistry of Ternary Metal Borides: Rare Earth Metal-Noble Metal-Boron....Pages 173-179
The Crystal Structure of PrOHSO 4 ....Pages 181-186
Oxidation of Praseodymia in Ternary Rare Earth Oxide Phases....Pages 187-188
The Trivalent Behaviour of Cerium. Implications for Cosmochemistry and Thermodynamics....Pages 189-194
The Structures of Na 3 Ln(XO 4 ) 2 Phases (Ln = Rare-Earth, X = P, V, As)....Pages 195-201
Investigation of the Reactions of RE + RE 2 O 3 Under High Pressures....Pages 203-208
Polymorphism of the Rare Earth Digermanates and Disilicates Under High Pressure and Information Given by the Eu 3+ Structural Probe....Pages 209-214
Correlation of Optical and Paramagnetic Properties of Neodymium (4f 3 ) in the Solid State....Pages 215-220
Disordered Cations in Pseudo Spinels FeR 2 S 4 (R = Yb, Lu, Sc)....Pages 221-222
Twins in LaSe 2 and LaSe 2−x and a Phase Transition in LaS 2 ....Pages 223-224
Mössbauer Spectroscopy on Superconducting and Mixed Valent Europium Compounds....Pages 225-237
Pressure Temperature Behavior of the Electronic Transitions in Sm 4 Bi 3 ....Pages 239-243
Mössbauer Studies of Er 0.5 Mo 6 Se 8 ....Pages 245-246
Superconductivity in the Yttrium Sesquicarbide System....Pages 247-252
Superconductivity in La-Y-Mn Alloys....Pages 253-254
The Anomalous Physical Properties of RESn 3 and ( La RE)Sn 3 Compounds and Alloys....Pages 255-260
4f and Band Contribution to the Samarium Form Factor in Samarium Intermetallics....Pages 261-271
On Various Anomalies in the Temperature Derivative of Transport Properties in RE Metallic Compounds....Pages 273-277
Martensitic Transformation and Magnetic Structures Between the Sm-Type and the HCP Structures in Tb-Light Rare Earth Alloys....Pages 279-284
γ-Ray Emission from Oriented Nuclei in a Multiaxis Nuclear Spin System: 166m Ho 165 Ho ....Pages 285-286
Mirror Properties of Rare Earths by Electrons and Positrons....Pages 287-289
The Vickers Microhardness and Pendulum Hardness of Polycrystalline Lanthanide Dicarbides....Pages 291-296
Crystal Chemistry of Rare Earth - Transition Metal Compounds....Pages 297-298
Atomic Volume Contraction in Rare Earth Nickel Intermetallics as a Function of Partial Coordination Number Coefficient....Pages 299-304
Comparison Between the Magnetic Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Rare Earth Transition Metal Alloys....Pages 305-306
Electric Field Gradients and Exchange Interactions in Amorphous RE 4 Au Alloys....Pages 307-312
Magnetic Excitations in TbFe 2 ....Pages 313-314
Magnetic Structures of the Mn-Rich Y 6 (Fe 1−x Mn x ) 23 Compounds....Pages 315-320
Magnetostriction in Some R 6 Fe 23 Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 321-326
Transport and Magnetic Properties of the Gd(Co x Ni 1−x ) Series (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3)....Pages 327-332
Neutron Diffraction Study of Th 2 (Co,Fe) 17 ....Pages 333-338
Magnetic Behaviour of Tmal 2 at Low Temperatures....Pages 339-340
Critical Behaviour of Transport Properties in GdCd Compounds....Pages 341-346
Magnetic Behaviour of RCu 4 Al (R = Rare Earth) Intermetallic Compounds II....Pages 347-352
The Curie-Weiss Law and the Chemical Bond....Pages 353-354
Magnetic Properties of Some Sm 2−x R x Co 17−y Mn y Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 355-364
The Effect of an Yttrium-Oxide Dispersion on the Yield and ‘Memory’ Characteristics of Nitinol....Pages 365-370
Heat Capacities of Lanthanide Compounds, Their Morphology Schottky, and Lattice Contribution....Pages 371-380
Thermophysics of the Lanthanide Trihydroxides — Resolution of the Lattice and Schottky Contributions....Pages 381-385
Thermophysics of the Lanthanide Trichlorides—Reanalysis of the Schottky Heat Capacity Contributions....Pages 387-392
Magnetic Properties of the Pyrochlores (RE) 2 V 2 O 7 ; RE = Tm, Yb, Lu. New Ferro- and Ferrimagnetic Semiconductors....Pages 393-394
Magnetic and Transport Properties of LaTiO 3 ....Pages 395-396
The Magnetic Structure of ErTiO 3 ....Pages 397-398
Magnetic Properties of Single Crystal NdF 3 in the Liquid Helium Temperature Region....Pages 399-402
Magnetic and Electrical Properties of the Rare Earth Oxynitrides Eu 1−x Nd x O 1−x N x ....Pages 403-408
The Magnetic Structure of Ho 11 Ge 8.75 Si 1.25 Determined by Neutron Diffraction....Pages 409-414
Magnetic Susceptibilities of SmP, SmAs, SmSb, SmBi, and their Solid Solutions with SmS....Pages 415-420
Electrical Resistivity of (Nd x Gd 1−x ) 3−y S 4 : Magnetic Effects....Pages 421-422
Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Ce 3−x S 4 ....Pages 423-424
Refining the Parameters of the Refined Spin-Pairing Energy Description....Pages 425-428
Resolution of Individual Electron Orbits for Solid State Atoms by Flux Quantum Analysis? Simple IIIB-Compounds and Phase Transition of Gadolinium (A 3 -A 2 )....Pages 429-434
Quasi Stationary States and the Lα and Lβ Satellites of the Heavy Rare Earths....Pages 435-440
Calculated Radiative and Nonradiative Transition Probabilities and Stimulated Cross-Sections of Selected Er 3+ Lines in Oxide Glasses....Pages 441-444
Eu Rich EuO: Specific Optical Transitions....Pages 445-450
Vibrational Spectra of Ternary Rare Earth Sulfides with CaFe 2 O 4 , Yb 3 S 4 , MnY 2 S 4 and ZnGa 2 S 4 Type Structures....Pages 451-456
Group Theoretical Examination of the Far Infrared Spectra of Tm 2 (SO 4 ) 3 • 8 H 2 O and TmCl 3 • 6 H 2 O....Pages 457-462
Radiative Transition Probabilities and Stimulated Cross-Sections of Nd 3+ in 3Ga 2 S 3 ·La 2 S 3 (GLS) and 3Aℓ 2 S 3 ·La 2 S 3 (ALS) GLASSES....Pages 463-468
Lanthanide Hydroxide Host Lattice Effects in the EPR Spectra of Gd 3+ Ions....Pages 469-474
Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Quenching of L-(−)-Tryptophan in DMSO by Eu 3+ ....Pages 475-480
Near Resonance Interactions between Stark Components of the 6 H 5/2 and 4 G 5/2 States of Sm 3+ in POCl 3 :SnCl 4 ....Pages 481-486
Oxidation of Cerium Studied by Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 487-488
Soft X-Ray Appearance Potential Spectroscopy of 70 Yb....Pages 489-494
Luminescence Processes in Nb Doped YV0 4 ....Pages 495-501
Electroluminescence of Rare-Earth Doped Cadmium Fluoride....Pages 503-504
Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets: Development Trends and their Implications for the Industry....Pages 505-510
The Diversity of Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits and their Geological Domains....Pages 511-516
Quality Control on an Industrial Scale at the La Rochelle Rare Earths Plant....Pages 517-526
Trends in the Industrial Uses for Mischmetal....Pages 527-532
Catalysis Using Rare Earth Intermetallics....Pages 533-537
The Hydrogenation of Ethylene Over Lanthanum Transition Metal Perovskites....Pages 539-544
A New Superionic Conductor: (LaO)AgS....Pages 545-546
Stem Characterization of the Synthetic Rare Earth Minerals in Nuclear Waste “Supercalcine-Ceramics”....Pages 547-552
Rare-Earth Hafnium Oxide Materials for Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Generator Application....Pages 553-558
Magnetism of Hydrogenated Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 559-561
Low Temperature Heat Capacity Studies on Hydrogen Absorbing Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 563-567
Neutron Scattering Studies of Hydrides of the Laves Phase Rare Earth Compounds RFe 2 ....Pages 569-570
Kinetics of Desorption of Hydrogen from RFe 2 H n Systems....Pages 571-576
Decomposition Kinetics of Plutonium Hydride....Pages 577-582
The Kinetics of Hydrogen Absorption by Rare Earth Intermetallics....Pages 583-584
Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of LaNi 5−x Mn x Compounds and Their Related Hydrides....Pages 585-591
The Effect of Group III A and IV A Element Substitutions (M) on the Hydrogen Dissociation Pressures of LaNi 5−x M x Hydrides....Pages 593-598
Hydrogen Coordination Number, Volume, and Dissociation Pressure in LaNi 5 Substituted Hydrides....Pages 599-604
New Hydridic Rare Earth Compounds....Pages 605-606
Suggestions for New Four-Level Lasers....Pages 607-612
Magnetic Properties of the Mini-Laser Material: The Chloro-Apatite of Neodynium....Pages 613-618
Necessary Numerical Criteria for some Physical Properties of Low-Quenching Neodymium Materials....Pages 619-624
Stark Level Identification of the 2.8 μm Laser Transition in Er:YLF....Pages 625-629
Dual Wavelength Laser Operation in Ho,Er:YLF....Pages 631-632
Back Matter....Pages 633-647