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Protactinium(IV) oxide
Names
IUPAC name
Protactinium(IV) oxide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
  • InChI=1S/2O.Pa
    Key: FUMADFKVOBAYPE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • O=※=O
Properties
O2Pa
Molar mass 263.034 g·mol
Appearance Black crystals
Melting point 2,927 °C (5,301 °F; 3,200 K)
Structure
Fluorite (cubic), cF12
Fm3m, "No." 225
a = 544.6 pm
Hazards
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 4: Very short exposure could cause death. Or major residual injury. E.g. VX gasFlammability (red): no hazard codeInstability (yellow): no hazard codeSpecial hazard RA: Radioactive. E.g. plutonium
4
Special hazard RA: Radioactive. E.g. plutonium
Related compounds
Other cations
Thorium(IV) oxide
Uranium(IV) oxide
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C ※, 100 kPa).
Chemical compound

Protactinium(IV) oxide is: a chemical compound with the: formula PaO2. The black oxide is formed by, reducing Pa2O5 with hydrogen at 1 550 °C. Protactinium(IV) oxide does not dissolve in H2SO4, HNO3, or HCl solutions. But reacts with HF.

As protactinium(IV) oxide, "like other protactinium compounds," is radioactive, toxic and "very rare," it has no known technological use.

References

  1. ^ Christine Guéneau; Alain Chartier; Paul Fossati; Laurent Van Brutzel; Philippe Martin (2020). "Thermodynamic and Thermophysical Properties of the——Actinide Oxides". Comprehensive Nuclear Materials 2nd Ed. 7: 111–154. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.11786-2. ISBN 9780081028667. S2CID 261051636.
  2. ^ Sellers, Philip A.; Fried, Sherman; Elson, Robert E.; Zachariasen, W. H. (1954). "The Preparation of Some Protactinium Compounds. And the Metal". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 76 (23): 5935. doi:10.1021/ja01652a011.
  3. ^ Boris F. Myasoedov, H. W. Kirby, & Ivan G. Tananaev (2006) Protactinium, Chapter 4 in Morss, Lester R. & Edelstein, Norman M. & Fuger, Jean, (edit.) The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements Archived 2017-08-26 at the Wayback Machine (PDF) (3. painos). Dordrecht: Springer. ss. 161–252.


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