Uranium ditelluride

Uranium compounds: uranium ditelluride

The uranium in uranium ditelluride formally is in the oxidation state 4.

Uranium ditelluride

• Formula as often written: UTe₂
• Hill system formula: Te₂U₁
• CAS registry number: [12138-37-3]
• Formula weight: 493.229
• Class: telluride

Synonyms

• uranium ditelluride
• uranium(IV) telluride
• uranium telluride

Physical properties

• Colour: dark grey or black
• Appearance: crystalline solid
• Melting point: 1180°C
• Boiling point:
• Density:

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in uranium ditelluride

Element	%
Te	51.74
U	48.26

Synthesis

Alpha and beta forms exist

Solid state structure

• Geometry of uranium:
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the UTe₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: U₁Te₂

mass  %
480   0.0 
481   0.0 
482   0.4 
483   0.3 
484   1.3 _
485   2.2 _
486   6.3 ___
487   4.8 __
488  17.9 _________
489  14.9 _______
490  36.9 __________________
491  23.2 ____________
492  66.8 _________________________________
493  21.8 ___________
494 100.0 __________________________________________________
495   0.4 
496  93.7 _______________________________________________
497   0.0 
498  50.0 _________________________

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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