Plutonium nitride

Plutonium nitride
Names
Other names
plutonium mononitride, azanylidyneplutonium, plutonium(III) nitride
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
  • InChI=1S/N.Pu
    Key: DPJMGCIEQAVKAI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • [N].[Pu]
Properties
NPu
Molar mass 258 g·mol−1
Appearance Grey crystalline solid
Density 14.2 g/cm3
Melting point 2,589 °C (4,692 °F; 2,862 K)
insoluble
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Plutonium nitride is a binary inorganic compound of plutonium and nitrogen with the chemical formula PuN.[1][2]

  1. ^ Kotel'nikov, R.B.; Bashlykov, S.N.; Kashtanov, A.I.; Men'shikova, T.S. (1978). Plutonium nitride and plutonium nitride base fuel materials. Nitrid plutoniya i toplivnye materialy na osnove nitrida plutoniya. Atomizdat. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  2. ^ Lai, Chao; Hu, Yin; Qiu, Ruizhi (2020). "Exploring the sub-stoichiometric behavior of plutonium mononitride". RSC Advances. 10 (42): 24877–24881. Bibcode:2020RSCAd..1024877L. doi:10.1039/D0RA00477D. PMC 9055177. PMID 35517460.