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SINCE the first reports of the allotropes of the element plutonium1, one aspect of continuing interest has been the existence of the δ′-phase occurring in the temperature-range 450–480° C. Recent determination of the latent heats of transition of the allotropes of plutonium2 enable the thermodynamic aspect of the effects of alloying elements (at impurity-level concentrations) on the δ⇌δ′ transition to be considered.
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COPE, R. The Delta Plutonium Transition Temperature. Nature 186, 539–540 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186539a0
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