IUPAC-NIST solubility data series. 87. Rare earth metal chlorides in water and aqueous systems. Part 2. Light Lanthanides (Ce-Eu)

Abstract

This is the second part of the volume devoted to solubility data of rare earth metal chlorides in water, ternary, and quaternary aqueous systems. This part covers chlorides of Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, and Eu as the main solutes. Compilations of all available experimental data are introduced for each rare earth metal chloride with a corresponding critical evaluation. Every such evaluation contains a tabulated collection of all solubility results in water, a scheme of the water-rich part of the equilibrium Ln Cl3 - H2 O phase diagram, solubility equation(s), a selection of suggested solubility data, and a brief discussion of the multicomponent systems. Because the ternary and quaternary systems were almost never studied more than once, no critical evaluations or systematic comparisons of such data were possible. Only simple chlorides (no complexes) are treated as the input substances in this work. The literature (including a thorough coverage of papers in Chinese and Russian) has been covered through the middle of 2007. © 2009 American Institute of Physics.