Protactinium(IV) oxide

Protactinium(IV) oxide
Names
IUPAC name
Protactinium(IV) oxide
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
  • InChI=1S/2O.Pa checkY
    Key: FUMADFKVOBAYPE-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY
  • O=[Pa]=O
Properties
O2Pa
Molar mass 263.034 g·mol−1
Appearance Black crystals
Melting point 2,927 °C (5,301 °F; 3,200 K)[1]
Structure
Fluorite (cubic), cF12
Fm3m, No. 225
a = 544.6 pm[1]
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 [77 °F], 100 kPa).

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.[2][3]: 195 

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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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