Actions for THE URANIUM-IRON SYSTEM
THE URANIUM-IRON SYSTEM
- Published
- United Kingdom : [publisher not identified], 1949.
[Oak Ridge, Tennessee] : [U.S. Atomic Energy Commission], 1949. - Physical Description
- microopaque : positive ; 8 x 13 cm
- Summary
- An investigation of the U-- Fe system showed that the solubility of iron in solid uranium increases with temperature from about 0.004 wt% (0.018 at.%) at 600 deg C to 0.35 wt% (1.5 at.%) at 805 deg C, the temperature at which the solid solubility curve meets the solidus and also a peritectic horizontal line, where liquid reacts with solid uranium to form the compound U/sub 6/Fe. No discontinuous change in solubility was detected at the transformation of alpha into BETA uranium but at the transformation of BETA into gamma the solubility suddenly increases from 0.1 to 0.2 wt% (0.4 to 0.8 at.%). The liquidus meets the peritectic horizontal at about 5 wt% (18 at.%) iron. The compound U/sub 6/Fe forms a eutectic, which contains about 11 wt% (34 at.%) iron and melts at 725 deg C, with UFe/sub 2/. The compound UFe/sub 2/ melts at 1230 deg C and forms a eutectic, which contains about 47 wt% (78 at.%) iron and melts at 1055 deg C, with iron. (P.C.H.)
- Report Numbers
- AERE-X/R-376
- Other Subject(s)
- Collection
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission depository collection.
- Note
- NSA number: NSA-16-029364
OSTI Identifier 4789747
Research organization: Gt. Brit. National Lab., Teddington, Middx., England.
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