Abstract
Abstract A multi-target recoil chamber technique was applied to study online chemical properties of protactinium in chlorinating and brominating gas media using 226Pa (T 1/2 = 1.8 min) decaying by alpha emission (74%) and β+/EC decay (26%). A 58 MeV proton beam passing 15 × 50 μg/cm2 thick 232Th targets enabled production of 226Pa formed in the reaction 232Th(p,7n). Isothermal gas chromatography in quartz columns allowed for the determination of adsorption enthalpies of oxohalides and pure halides of Pa5+ compounds. On the basis of empirical correlations, these adsorption enthalpies (ΔH0 ads) could be converted to sublimation enthalpies (ΔH0 subl). Resulting values for the assumed compounds PaCl5, PaOCl3, PaBr5, and PaOBr3 were 113 ± 15, 329 ± 16, 165 ± 5 and 235 ± 17 kJ/mol, respectively. These values are rather similar to known ΔH0 subl data for group-5 elements Nb, Ta and Db in support of the assumption that Pa is a pseudo-group 5 element.
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