The Rare Earths in Modern Science and Technology

Applications to Hydrogen Storage and MHD Materials.- Prospects for the Use of Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier.- Performance Characteristics of the Hycsos Chemical Heat Pump System Based on Rare Earth Transition Metal AB5 Hydrides.- Hydrogen Absorption in Ternary Substituted AB5 Alloys with Particular Reference to La1-XYX Ni5 and LaNi5-xAlx Alloys.- Solar Furnace Experiments for Thermophysical Properties Studies of Rare-Earth Oxide MHD Materials.- Rare Earth Ceramics for MHD-Power Generators.- Influence of Composition and Cation Stoichiometry on the Volatility, Electrical Conductivity and Thermal Expansion of LaCrO3 Based Oxides.- Hydrides.- Sublattice Magnetization of ErFe2-H.- Low Temperature Magnetic Properties of the Hydrides and Deuterides of Er(Fe1-xMnx)2.- An Explanation for the Schottky-Like Anomaly in the Low Temperature Heat Capacity of Lu-H Alloys.- Magnetization Measurements on Er1-xThxFe3 and Some of Their Hydrides.- Catalysis.- Intermetallic Compounds as Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Carbon Oxides.- Methanation by Rare Earth Intermetallic Catalysts.- Chemiluminescence Induced by Catalysis: III. Luminescent Transitions of Europium Ions in a Thoria Matrix During the Catalysis of Carbon Monoxide Oxidation.- Bioinorganic and Coordination Chemistry.- Rare Earth Ion Probes of Metal Binding Sites on Yeast tRNAPhe.- Lanthanide Ions as Probes in Antibodies.- Laser-Induced Lanthanide Ion Luminescence as a Probe of Structure in Calcium Binding Proteins.- Steric Effects on Lanthanide Complexation Reactions in Mixed Solvents.- Lanthanide (III) and Actinide (III) Chelate Kinetics Via Solvent Extraction.- N,N,N?,N?-Tetramethylmalonamide (TMMA) Adducts of Lanthanide Hexafluorphosphates.- Erbium Chloride Complexation in Aqueous Dimethylsulfoxide.- Adducts of Lanthanide Iodides and Tetramethylene-Sulphoxide (TMSO).- Solid State Chemistry.- The Chemist’s Role in the Improvement of the Physical Properties of Rare-Earth Compounds. Some Examples Concerning Divalent Europium.- Phase Relationships and Crystal Chemistry of Compounds Containing Cerium Oxide.- Preparation and Crystal Chemistry of Some New Lanthanon Iron Borates.- Crystal Chemistry and Oxidation-Reduction of Phases in Rare Earth Tantalate-Niobate Systems.- Crystal Chemical Review of REMO3 Compounds (M = First Row Transition Metals).- Crystal Chemistry and Some Magnetic Properties of the Rare-Earth Titanium (III) Oxides, RTiO3, R = Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Lu.- Preparation and Structure of Sodium Lanthanide Orthophosphates, Na3Ln(PO4)2.- High-Pressure Synthesis of Lanthanide/Boron and Actinide/ Boron Compounds.- Polyhedral Atomic Volumes and Generalized Coordination Numbers for the Rare Earth Chlorides and Bromides.- High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Polytypes in DyAl3.- Oxysulfides Formed by Lanthanum and a Second Cation: As, Sb, Bi; Ga, In; Ge, Sn.- Carbonation of Cerium Oxychloride.- Light Lanthanoid Partitioning in Rocks and Minerals Containing Rare Earths.- Vitreous Rare Earth Fluorozirconates.- Seal-Glass Compositions in the System Dy2O3-Al2O3-SiO2.- Single Crystal Growth from the Fluxed Melt of New Neodymium Doped Materials for Mini-Laser.- Use of Europium as a Probe in the Study of the Fe2+-Fe3+ Redox Equilibrium.- A Novel Terbium (IV) Hydroxy Iodate?.- The Rare Earth Carboxides.- Metallurgy.- The Effect of Oxygen and Hydrogen on the Transition and Melting Temperatures of Samarium.- Zone Refining of Rare Earth Metals.- Crystallographic Quality of RFe2 Crystals Containing Ho.- Single Crystals of Rare Earth Metals, Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds.- Phase Relations in the LaNi5-xCuX, LaNi5-xAlX and Related Systems.- Powder Metallurgical Processing of RFe2 Alloys.- Mischmetal in Steelmaking — Present and Future.- Nonmetallic and Intermetallic Phases Containing Rare Earths in Low Alloy Steels Treated with Mischmetal Alloys.- Solid State Physics.- Appearance-Potential Study of the 4f States of Dysprosium.- Ionization Cross Sections for Rare Earth Metals.- Low Temperature Heat Capacities of Rare Earth Sesquisulfides.- A Theoretical Method for the Determination of Electron and Positron Ranges in Rare Earth Metals.- An Analysis of Diffraction Data for Amorphous SmFe2 and TbFe2.- Magnetism.- Experiments on the Coexistence of Superconductivity and Long-Range Magnetic Order in Ternary Rare Earth Compounds.- Substitutional and Ordering Effects in the YCo5 Structure.- Neutron Diffraction of Y6Fe23 and Y6Mn23.- Effect of Rare Earth and Transition Metal Substitution on the Anisotropy of R2Co17 Compounds (R = Er, Tm, Yb).- The Magnetic Anisotropy of an Er2Fe17 Single Crystal.- Magnetization and Anisotropy of Some R2Co7 Phases at Low Temperature.- Magnetic Behavior of RCu4Al (R = Gd, Tb, Dy and Ho) Compounds.- Hyperfine Interactions in Oxygen Stabilized Rare-Earth Iron, R12Fe32O2 Compounds.- Magnetic Susceptibility of Cerium Tantalate Compounds.- Phonon and Magnon Resonances in GdFe2 Films.- The Curie Constant of Rare Earths.- Optical Properties of Solids.- Optical Properties of Rare Earth Metals.- Measurement of the 4f Electron Coulomb Repulsion Energy in GdSb, GdTe and EuO by Inelastic Electron Scattering and X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy.- Temperature Dependences of the Faraday Rotation and Cotton Mouton Effect in Dysprosium Iron Garnet.- High Optical Mode Conversions Induced by the Epitaxy Birefringence in Gd and Tb Substituted Garnet Films.- Actinides.- The First Preparation of an Einsteinium (II) Compound, EsCl2.- Absorption Spectrophotometric and X-Ray Diffraction Evidence for Mixed-Valence Compounds in Anhydrous Halides of Lanthanide-Actinide Mixtures.- Fluorescence and Excitation Spectra of Bk3+, Cf3+, and Es3+ Ions in Single Crystals of LaCl3.- Lasers, Fluorescence and f-f Absorption.- Predictions of the Laser Characteristics of Tm3+ in Phosphate, Borate, Germanate and Tellurite Glasses.- Rare Earth Vapor Laser Studies.- Stimulated Emission at 0.64 ?m in Trivalent Pr Doped LiYF4.- Observation of Magnetic-Dipole Transitions for Pr3+ in LiYF4.- Radiative and Non-Radiative Transition Probabilities for Eu3+ in KY3F10.- Spectra-Structure Relations in KY3F10 Isotypic Compounds Doped with Eu2+ or Eu3+.- Energy Transfers in Holmium and Yttrium Fluoride.- Spectroscopic Investigation of NaCl: Sm2+ Fluorescence — a Departure from the Norm.- Radiationless Processes in BaClF:Sm2+.- Flame Excited Luminescence and Radical Recombination Luminescence of Tb3+ and Eu3+ in Rare Earth Oxide Phosphors and Silicate Glasses.- Spectroscopy.- New Arguments for Atomic Character of the 4f Shell.- Photochemical Separation of Rare Earths in the Liquid Phase.- Direct Determination of Rare Earths from Mixed Aqueous Solution by Plasma Emission Spectroscopy.- Structural and Optical Properties of Lanthanum-Gallium Sulfides Glasses.- Vibrational Spectra of Rare Earth Thiospinels.- Optical Absorption of Cation and Anion Substituted Sm2S3.- Author Index.