What is it about?
Most metals form carbides while reacting with carbon. But this tendency decrease while going from left to right side of the Periodic table of elements. Why it is so ? And Where is the limit? We demonstrate that TECHNETIUM is the last carbide forming element that can form a carbon deficient phase Tc6C.
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Why is it important?
Carbides are widly used in industry and its properties understanding is of high value. Technetium is also important as an element formed in the most powerful green energetic technology - nuclear one. Its behawior in the safe nuclear fuel - (UC) is to be well understood
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We demonstrate the properties of Tc6C that will help application of this elements in nuclear targets of different types.
Prof Konstantin Ed. German
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry RAS
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This page is a summary of: Explaining stability of transition metal carbides – and why TcC does not exist, RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra24656c.
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