Oxidation-reduction properties of mixed oxides in the cerium-uranium-oxygen system.

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The formation and the oxidation-reduction properties of mixed oxides in the Ce–U–O ternary system were examined by means of thermogravimetry and the X-ray diffraction technique. The mixed oxides were prepared by the reactions of CeO2 with U3O8 in air and in hydrogen. The composition of the products heated in air, followed by slow cooling to room temperature, was approximately expressed by this equation: yCeO2+(1–y)UO2.67. By X-ray diffraction, it was shown that the oxides formed at 1100 °C in air were mixtures of Ce0.6U0.4O2.3 and α-U3O8 in the y<0.6 range, while they were in single phases of solid solutions for y≥0.6. When the mixed oxides, MO2+X, where M indicates yCe+(1–y)U, were re-heated in air, weight loss due to oxygen liberation was observed above 500 °C, and it was enhanced with a rise in the temperature. The hydrogen reduction of the oxides proceeded in two steps; the first step was the reduction of MO2+X to MO2 below 600 °C, and the second one was the reduction of MO2 to MO2−X above 600 °C. The composition of the oxides obtained can be given by this equation: yCeO1.81+(1–y)UO2.00. Two separate linear relationships for the lattice parameter of the fluorite-type structure as a function of the cerium content were obtained; one is applicable to the solid solutions with y≤0.6, where the lattice parameter is nearly that of UO2, and the other to the solid solutions with y≥0.4. The latter obeys Vegard's law between UO2 and CeO2. The oxides with y=0.4–0.6 were in the two-phase region of the solid solutions.
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Oxidation-reduction properties of mixed oxides in the cerium-uranium-oxygen system.

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