Some problems in the chemistry of uranium and thorium of interest to the development of atomic power

Abstract

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Metal-Water Reactions

“…These phases then were associated with the evolved hydrogen and were assumed to be a thorium hydride which had decomposed during the heating. While no positive identification was made, from the work of Nottorf and co-workers (13) and the temperature at which the thorium-water vapor reactions were run, the new phases were assumed to be thorium dihydride. Further corroboration of this was obtained by blocking off an area on microphotographs of the interior of the nletal specimens and determining the relative areas of the metal and new intragranular phase.…”