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The Chemistry of the Actinide Elements pp 1388–1416Cite as

The Metallic State

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A number of the properties covered in this chapter are also given elsewhere in this volume. In this presentation, the properties of the actinide elements arc taken as a whole and attempts are made to compare them with the properties of metallic elements occurring in other parts of the periodic table. The actinide metals arc often thought to be exotic, because they tend to have properties that are difficult to explain by simple theoretical approaches that have been useful for simple metals. The properties of the actinide metals do in fact represent a severe test to the theoretical solid-state scientist, as do the other transition-metal series. But, like other metals, they are lustrous and may be malleable; they have, among their several crystalline structures, some simple atomic arrangements; and they have relatively low electrical resistivities and high thermal conductivities.

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Nevitt, M.V., Brodsky, M.B. (1986). The Metallic State. In: Katz, J.J., Seaborg, G.T., Morss, L.R. (eds) The Chemistry of the Actinide Elements. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3155-8_12

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