• Curium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of curium and nitrogen with the chemical formula CmN. Curium nitride can be prepared by carbothermic nitridation...
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    Wayback Machine Wang, L.D.; Kwok, H.S. (2000). "Cubic aluminum nitride and gallium nitride thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition". Applied Surface...
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  • Curium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This transuranic actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie...
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    product using this reaction. It can be obtained from the reaction of curium nitride with cadmium chloride: 2 CmN + 3 CdCl2 → 2 CmCl3 + Cd3N2 Greenwood,...
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    such as stainless steel; or a molecular compound such as polymeric sulfur nitride. The general science of metals is called metallurgy, a subtopic of materials...
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    sodium borate, and the ultra-hard crystals of boron carbide and boron nitride. Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovae...
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    (S4N4). The essentially covalent silicon nitride (Si3N4) and germanium nitride (Ge3N4) are also known: silicon nitride, in particular, would make a promising...
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    switching circuits, and infrared circuits. Semiconducting gallium nitride and indium gallium nitride produce blue and violet light-emitting diodes and diode lasers...
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  • range of physical properties. While actinium and the late actinides (from curium onwards) behave similarly to the lanthanides, the elements thorium, protactinium...
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    alkaline earth metal, calcium is a reactive metal that forms a dark oxide-nitride layer when exposed to air. Its physical and chemical properties are most...
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    and middle actinides (thorium through americium, and also expected for curium), thorium forms the yellow cyclooctatetraenide complex Th(C 8H 8) 2, thorocene...
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    (1979). "Preparation and structural studies of elemental curium-248 and the nitrides of curium-248 and berkelium-249". Journal of the Less Common Metals...
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  • Tetramminecopper(II) sulfate – [Cu(NH3)4]SO4 Curium(III) chloride – CmCl3 Curium(III) oxide – Cm2O3 Curium(IV) oxide – CmO2 Curium hydroxide – Cm(OH)3 Cyanogen bromide...
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    burns in pure nitrogen gas, reacting at 800 °C (1,470 °F) to form titanium nitride, which causes embrittlement. Because of its high reactivity with oxygen...
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    would require heavy shielding. Radioisotopes such as plutonium-238, curium-242, curium-244 and strontium-90 have been used. Tritium, nickel-63, promethium-147...
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  • 10294–48–1 CmBr3 curium(III) bromide 14890–42–7 CmCl3 curium(III) chloride 13537–20–7 CmF3 curium(III) fluoride 13708–79–7 CmF4 curium(IV) fluoride 24311–95–3...
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    carbide, is a hard ceramic that is used in cutting tools. Tantalum(III) nitride is used as a thin film insulator in some microelectronic fabrication processes...
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    the ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile. Molybdenum carbides, nitride and phosphides can be used for hydrotreatment of rapeseed oil. Ammonium...
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    Strontium metal burns in air to produce both strontium oxide and strontium nitride, but since it does not react with nitrogen below 380 °C, at room temperature...
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    be endothermic, so they do not form nitrides at standard conditions. Sodium nitride (Na3N) and potassium nitride (K3N), while existing, are extremely...
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  • observed in curium trioxide (CmO3) and dioxidocurium(2+) (CmO+2); see Domanov, V. P.; Lobanov, Yu. V. (October 2011). "Formation of volatile curium(VI) trioxide...
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    oxygen) upon exposure to air, forming a black surface layer of radium nitride (Ra3N2). All isotopes of radium are radioactive, the most stable isotope...
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    complicated formula [Zr4(OH)12(H2O)16]Cl8. Zirconium carbide and zirconium nitride are refractory solids. The carbide is used for drilling tools and cutting...
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    of niobium enhances the strength of the steel by scavenging carbide and nitride. The temperature stability of niobium-containing superalloys is important...
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    tantalum and tungsten along with the more stable oxides, borides, carbides, nitrides and silicides can tolerate this. Melting in an electric arc furnace can...
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    hydrogen.) Crystal solids featuring pnictogens fully reduced include yttrium nitride, calcium phosphide, sodium arsenide, indium antimonide, and even double...
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    form a black coating of lithium hydroxide (LiOH and LiOH·H2O), lithium nitride (Li3N) and lithium carbonate (Li2CO3, the result of a secondary reaction...
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    to create reactive uranium powder along with various uranium carbide, nitride, and halide compounds. Two crystal modifications of uranium hydride exist:...
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    when 1400 °C is reached, atmospheric nitrogen also reacts to give the nitrides SiN and Si 3N 4. Silicon reacts with gaseous sulfur at 600 °C and gaseous...
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    nitrogen embrittlement, reacting with nitrogen from air and forming brittle nitrides at the high temperatures necessary to work the metal parts. Naturally occurring...
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