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Electrochemistry of thorium in LiCl-KCl eutectic melts

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This work presents a study of the electrochemical properties of Th chloride ions dissolved in a molten LiCl-KCl eutectic, in a temperature range of 693-823 K. Transient electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry and chronopotentiommetry have been used in order to investigate the reduction mechanism on a tungsten electrode and the diffusion coefficient of dissolved Th ions. All techniques showed that only one valence state was stable in the melt. The reduction into Th metal was found to occur according to a one-step mechanism, through an irreversible reaction controlled by a nucleation process which requires an overpotential of several 100 mV. At 723 K, the diffusion coefficient is DTh(723K) = 3.7 ± 0.2·10-5 cm2.s-1. EMF measurements indicated that, at 723 K, the standard apparent potential is *0ThCl4 /Th) E (723 K) = - 2.582 V vs. Cl2/Cl-, and the activity coefficient γThCl4(723 K) = 8·10-3 on the mole fraction scale (based on a pure liquid reference state).

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Génie chimique
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hal-03594312 , version 1 (26-03-2024)

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Laurent Cassayre, Jérôme Serp, Pavel Soucek, Rikard Malmbeck, Jean Rebizant, et al.. Electrochemistry of thorium in LiCl-KCl eutectic melts. Electrochimica Acta, 2007, 52 (26), pp.7432-7437. ⟨10.1016/j.electacta.2007.06.022⟩. ⟨hal-03594312⟩
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