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Observations of J0804+5740, the first actinide-boost star identified in the Gaia Sausage, provide an exciting new piece of the puzzle. "The study reports a comprehensive set of chemical data ...

Professor Liddle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011 and Vice President to the Executive Committee of the European Rare Earth and Actinide Society in 2012 and continues to ...

Biography Zhiping Zheng received his education at Peking University (BS’87 and MS’90) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD’95 with Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne). He conducted ...

Durable actinide-containing materials are attractive for various applications. These include in chemically-inert sources of α-irradiation used for a variety of functions such as energy sources for ...

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A series of homoleptic tetravalent transition-metal and actinide Schiff-base coordination complexes, ML2 {M = Zr, Hf, Th, U; L = N,N′-bis[(4,4′-diethylamino)salicylidene]-1,2-phenylenediamine}, have ...

As the minor actinide particles fission, the two new smaller nuclei are ejected from the particle and can be separated from the actinide particles by centrifugal methods in a recycling system.

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