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Thermal decomposition of cerium oxalate and mixed cerium-gadolinium oxalates

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Cerium oxalate and mixed cerium-gadolinium oxalates containing 20 and 50 mol% gadolinium were subjected to thermal decomposition. Thermal analysis showed that cerous oxalate is transformed to cerium oxide in two steps. The first step involves the endothermic removal of 10 mol of water, with a calculated activation energy of 78.2 kJ/mol. The second step involves the exothermic decomposition of the anhydrous oxalate, with an activation energy of 112.6 kJ/mol. The water content in the mixed cerium-gadolinium oxalates decreases with increasing gadolinium content, while the temperature of exothermic decomposition of the anhydrous oxalate increases with it.

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Zeroxalat und Zer-Gadolinium-Mischoxalat mit 20 bzw. 50 mol% Gadolinium wurden einer thermischen Zersetzung unterzogen. Die Thermoanalyse zeigte, da\ Zeroxalat in zwei Schritten in Zeroxid überführt wird. Der erste Schritt mit der Aktivierungsenergie von 78.2 kJ/mol besteht in der endothermen Abgabe von 10 mol Wasser. Der zweite Schritt mit der Aktivierungsenergie 112.6 kJ/mol umfa\t die exotherme Zersetzung des wasserfreien Oxalates. Der Wassergehalt der Zer-Gadolinium-Mischoxalate nimmt mit steigendem Gadoliniumgehalt ab und die Temperatur für den exothermen Zersetzungsvorgang der wasserfreien Oxalate nimmt mit steigendem Gadoliniumgehalt zu.

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El-Houte, S., El-Sayed Ali, M. Thermal decomposition of cerium oxalate and mixed cerium-gadolinium oxalates. Journal of Thermal Analysis 37, 907–913 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01932788

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