Vacuum Fusion Determination of Oxygen and Nitrogen Lanthanum

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Vacuum fusion determination of oxygen in gadolinium, terbium metal and iron-terbium alloy

“…This technique offers, therefore, a means of estimating the reliability of oxygen values by its wider choice of analyzing conditions using various bath metals with a wider choice of analyzing temperatures between 800--2200 ~ No literature, however, is known on the determination of oxygen in gadolinium and terbium, with a high volatility and a high reactivity with oxygen, and there is no discussion on the accuracy of the determination of these metals. Peterson et al [2] only reported that oxygen in lanthanum was determined with a nickel bath using vacuum fusion analysis, and the recovery of oxygen was 90 percent presumably due to the gettering effect of the sample vapor in the furnace.…”