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(Hf) 72 (Rf) 104 Legend Atomic number color: black=solid Group 4 is a of in the. It contains the elements (Ti), (Zr), (Hf) and (Rf). This group lies in the of the periodic table. The group itself has not acquired a; it belongs to the broader grouping of the. The three Group 4 elements that occur naturally are, and. The first three members of the group share similar properties; all three are hard under standard conditions. However, the fourth element, has been synthesized in the laboratory; none of its isotopes have been found occurring in nature.

All isotopes of rutherfordium are. So far, no experiments in a have been conducted to the next member of the group, unpenthexium (Uph), and it is unlikely that they will be synthesized in the near future. Characteristics Chemistry Like other groups, the members of this family show patterns in its electron configuration, especially the outermost shells resulting in trends in chemical behavior: 22 titanium 2, 8, 10, 2 40 zirconium 2, 8, 18, 10, 2 72 hafnium 2, 8, 18, 32, 10, 2 104 rutherfordium 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 10, 2 Most of the chemistry has been observed only for the first three members of the group. The chemistry of rutherfordium is not very established and therefore the rest of the section deals only with titanium, zirconium, and hafnium. All the elements of the group are reactive metals with a high melting point (1668 °C, 1855 °C, 2233 °C, 2100 °C?).

The reactivity is not always obvious due to the rapid formation of a stable oxide layer, which prevents further reactions. The oxides, and are white solids with high melting points and unreactive against most acids.

Like the two similar elements, titanium and zirconium, hafnium is a young and little known metal whose industrial development began. Electron beam melting), removal of surface. Typical analysis of hafnium materials and ASTM standard specifications (maximum concentrations in ppm except when otherwise specified).

As tetravalent transition metals, all three elements form various, generally in the oxidation state of +4. For the first three metals, it has been shown that they are resistant to concentrated, but react with them to form tetrahalides. At higher temperatures, all three metals react with, and. Because of the of the elements in the, zirconium and hafnium have nearly identical. The ionic radius of Zr 4+ is 79 and that of Hf 4+ is 78 pm. This similarity results in nearly identical chemical behavior and in the formation of similar chemical compounds.

The chemistry of hafnium is so similar to that of zirconium that a separation on chemical reactions was not possible; only the physical properties of the compounds differ. The melting points and boiling points of the compounds and the in solvents are the major differences in the chemistry of these twin elements. Titanium is considerably different from the other two owing to the effects of the.

Physical The table below is a summary of the key physical properties of the group 4 elements. The four question-marked values are extrapolated. Properties of the Group 4 elements Name 1941 K (1668 °C) 2130 K (1857 °C) 2506 K (2233 °C) 2400 K (2100 °C)? 3560 K (3287 °C) 4682 K (4409 °C) 4876 K (4603 °C) 5800 K (5500 °C)? 4.507 gcm −3 6.511 gcm −3 13.31 gcm −3 23.2 gcm −3? Appearance silver metallic silver white silver gray?

140 pm 155 pm 155 pm 150 pm? Crystal of the abundant mineral Titanium, and independently discovered titanium between 1791 and 1795. Klaproth named it for the of. Zirconium Klaproth also discovered zirconium in the mineral in 1789 and named it after the already known Zirkonerde. Hafnium Hafnium had been predicted by in 1869 and measured in 1914 the by to be 72, placing it between the already known elements and. And were the first to search for the new element in zirconium ores. Hafnium was discovered by the two in 1923 in, Denmark, validating the original 1869 prediction of Mendeleev.

There has been some controversy surrounding the discovery of hafnium and the extent to which Coster and Hevesy were guided by Bohr's prediction that hafnium would be a transition metal rather than a rare earth element. While titanium and zirconium, as relatively abundant elements, were discovered in the late 18th century, it took until 1923 for hafnium to be identified. This was only partly due to hafnium's relative scarcity. The chemical similarity between zirconium and hafnium made a separation difficult and, without knowing what to look for, hafnium was left undiscovered, although all samples of zirconium, and all of its compounds, used by chemists for over two centuries contained significant amounts of hafnium. Rutherfordium Rutherfordium was reportedly in 1966 at the at (then in the ).

Researchers there bombarded 242 with accelerated 22 and separated the reaction products by gradient thermochromatography after conversion to chlorides by interaction with. 242 94Pu + 22 10Ne → 264− x 104Rf → 264− x 104Rf Cl 4 Production The production of the metals itself is difficult due to their reactivity. The formation of, and must be avoided to yield workable metals, this is normally achieved by the. The oxides (MO 2) are reacted with and to form the chlorides (MCl 4).The chlorides of the metals are then reacted with magnesium, yielding and the metals.

Further purification is done by a developed by and. In a closed vessel, the metal reacts with at temperatures of above 500 °C forming metal(IV) iodide; at a tungsten filament of nearly 2000 °C the reverse reaction happens and the iodine and metal are set free. The metal forms a solid coating at the tungsten filament and the iodine can react with additional metal resulting in a steady turn over. M + 2 I 2 (low temp.) → MI 4 MI 4 (high temp.) → M + 2 I 2 Occurrence.

Heavy minerals (dark) in a quartz beach sand (, India). If the is compared for titanium, zirconium and hafnium, the abundance decreases with increase of atomic mass. Titanium is the seventh most abundant metal in Earth's crust and has an abundance of 6320 ppm, while zirconium has an abundance of 162 ppm and hafnium has only an abundance of 3 ppm. All three stable elements occur in, which are formed, most usually in environments, by concentration due to the of the mineral grains of erosion material from and. The titanium minerals are mostly and, and zirconium occurs in the mineral. Because of the chemical similarity, up to 5% of the zirconium in zircon is replaced by hafnium.

The largest producers of the group 4 elements are, and. Applications Titanium metal and its alloys have a wide range of applications, where the corrosion resistance, the heat stability and the low density (light weight) are of benefit. The foremost use of corrosion-resistant hafnium and zirconium has been in nuclear reactors. Zirconium has a very low and hafnium has a high.

Therefore, zirconium (mostly as ) is used as of in, while hafnium is used as for, because each hafnium atom can absorb multiple neutrons. Smaller amounts of hafnium and zirconium are used in super alloys to improve the properties of those alloys. Biological occurrences The group 4 elements are not known to be involved in the biological chemistry of any living systems. They are hard refractory metals with low aqueous solubility and low availability to the biosphere. Titanium is one of the few first row d-block transition metals with no known biological role.

Rutherfordium's radioactivity would make it toxic to living cells. Precautions Titanium is non-toxic even in large doses and does not play any natural role inside the.

Zirconium powder can cause irritation, but only contact with the eyes requires medical attention. OSHA recommends for zirconium are 5 mg/m 3 limit and a 10 mg/m 3 short-term exposure limit.

Only limited data exists on the toxicology of hafnium.

. Hafnium is a with symbol Hf and 72.

A, silvery gray, hafnium chemically resembles and is found in many zirconium. Its existence was in 1869, though it was not identified until 1923, by Coster and Hevesy, making it the last element to be discovered. Hafnium is named after Hafnia, the name for, where it was discovered. Hafnium is used in filaments and electrodes. Some fabrication processes use its oxide for at 45 nm and smaller feature lengths. Some used for special applications contain hafnium in combination with,.

Hafnium's large cross-section makes it a good material for absorption in in, but at the same time requires that it be removed from the neutron-transparent corrosion-resistant used in. Pieces of Hafnium Hafnium is a shiny, silvery, that is -resistant and chemically similar to zirconium (due to its having the same number of, being in the same group, but also to; the expected expansion of atomic radii from period 5 to 6 is almost exactly cancelled out by the ). The physical properties of hafnium metal samples are markedly affected by zirconium impurities, especially the nuclear properties, as these two elements are among the most difficult to separate because of their chemical similarity. A notable physical difference between these metals is their, with zirconium having about one-half the density of hafnium. The most notable properties of hafnium are its high thermal and that the nuclei of several different hafnium isotopes readily absorb two or more apiece. In contrast with this, zirconium is practically transparent to thermal neutrons, and it is commonly used for the metal components of nuclear reactors – especially the cladding of their. Chemical characteristics.

Hafnium dioxide Hafnium reacts in air to form a that inhibits further. The metal is not readily attacked by acids but can be oxidized with or it can be burnt in air. Like its sister metal zirconium, finely divided hafnium can ignite spontaneously in air, producing an effect similar to that obtained in. The metal is resistant to concentrated. The chemistry of hafnium and zirconium is so similar that the two cannot be separated on the basis of differing chemical reactions.

The melting points and boiling points of the compounds and the in solvents are the major differences in the chemistry of these twin elements. Isotopes. Zircon crystal (2×2 cm) from Tocantins, Hafnium is estimated to make up about 5.8 of the 's upper by mass. It does not exist as a free element on Earth, but is found combined in with zirconium in natural compounds such as, ZrSiO 4, which usually has about 1–4% of the Zr replaced by Hf. Rarely, the Hf/Zr ratio increases during crystallization to give the isostructural mineral (Hf,Zr)SiO 4, with atomic Hf Zr.

An old (obsolete) name for a variety of zircon containing unusually high Hf content is alvite. A major source of zircon (and hence hafnium) ores is, particularly in and, and intrusions, particularly the Crown Polymetallic Deposit at, Western Australia. A potential source of hafnium is trachyte tuffs containing rare zircon-hafnium silicates or armstrongite, at in, Australia. Lwip ppp over serial link. Hafnium reserves have been infamously estimated to last under 10 years by one source if the world population increases and demand grows. In reality, since hafnium occurs with zirconium, hafnium can always be a byproduct of zirconium extraction to the extent that the low demand requires.

Production. Melted tip of a hafnium consumable electrode used in an ebeam remelting furnace, a 1 cm cube, and an oxided hafnium ebeam remelted ingot (left to right) The of the titanium ores and yield most of the mined zirconium, and therefore also most of the hafnium. Zirconium is a good nuclear fuel-rod cladding metal, with the desirable properties of a very low neutron capture cross-section and good chemical stability at high temperatures. However, because of hafnium's neutron-absorbing properties, hafnium impurities in zirconium would cause it to be far less useful for nuclear-reactor applications. Thus, a nearly complete separation of zirconium and hafnium is necessary for their use in nuclear power. The production of hafnium-free zirconium is the main source for hafnium.

Hafnium oxidized ingots which exhibit effects. The chemical properties of hafnium and zirconium are nearly identical, which makes the two difficult to separate.

The methods first used — of ammonium fluoride salts or the fractionated distillation of the chloride — have not proven suitable for an industrial-scale production. After zirconium was chosen as material for nuclear reactor programs in the 1940s, a separation method had to be developed. Liquid-liquid extraction processes with a wide variety of solvents were developed and are still used for the production of hafnium. About half of all hafnium metal manufactured is produced as a by-product of zirconium refinement.

The end product of the separation is hafnium(IV) chloride. The purified hafnium(IV) chloride is converted to the metal by reduction with or, as in the. HfCl 4 + 2 Mg (1100 °C) → 2 MgCl 2 + Hf Further purification is effected by a developed by: In a closed vessel, hafnium reacts with at temperatures of 500 °C, forming; at a tungsten filament of 1700 °C the reverse reaction happens, and the iodine and hafnium are set free. The hafnium forms a solid coating at the tungsten filament, and the iodine can react with additional hafnium, resulting in a steady turn over.

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Hf + 2 I 2 (500 °C) → HfI 4 HfI 4 (1700 °C) → Hf + 2 I 2 Chemical compounds Due to the the of hafnium(IV) (0.78 angstroms) is almost the same as that of (IV) (0.79 ). Consequently, compounds of hafnium(IV) and zirconium(IV) have very similar chemical and physical properties. Hafnium and zirconium tend to occur together in nature and the similarity of their ionic radii makes their chemical separation rather difficult.

Hafnium tends to form in the oxidation state of +4. React with it to form hafnium tetrahalides. At higher temperatures, hafnium reacts with, and. Some compounds of hafnium in lower oxidation states are known. And hafnium(IV) iodide have some applications in the production and purification of hafnium metal. They are volatile solids with polymeric structures.

These tetrachlorides are precursors to various such as hafnocene dichloride and tetrabenzylhafnium. The white (HfO 2), with a melting point of 2812 °C and a boiling point of roughly 5100 °C, is very similar to, but slightly more basic. Is the most known, with a melting point over 3890 °C, and hafnium nitride is the most refractory of all known metal nitrides, with a melting point of 3310 °C. This has led to proposals that hafnium or its carbides might be useful as construction materials that are subjected to very high temperatures. The mixed carbide ( Ta 4HfC 5) possesses the highest melting point of any currently known compound, 4215 °C.

Recent supercomputer simulations suggest a hafnium alloy with a melting point of 4400 K. Photographic recording of the characteristic X-ray emission lines of some elements In his report on The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements, in 1869, had implicitly of a heavier analog of titanium and zirconium. At the time of his formulation in 1871, Mendeleev believed that the elements were ordered by their and placed (element 57) in the spot below zirconium. The exact placement of the elements and the location of missing elements was done by determining the specific weight of the elements and comparing the chemical and physical properties. The done by in 1914 showed a direct dependency between and. This led to the nuclear charge, or of an element, being used to ascertain its place within the periodic table. With this method, Moseley determined the number of and showed the gaps in the atomic number sequence at numbers 43, 61, 72, and 75.

The discovery of the gaps led to an extensive search for the missing elements. In 1914, several people claimed the discovery after Henry Moseley predicted the gap in the periodic table for the then-undiscovered element 72. Asserted that he found element 72 in the in 1907 and published his results on celtium in 1911. Neither the spectra nor the chemical behavior he claimed matched with the element found later, and therefore his claim was turned down after a long-standing controversy. The controversy was partly because the chemists favored the chemical techniques which led to the discovery of celtium, while the physicists relied on the use of the new X-ray spectroscopy method that proved that the substances discovered by Urbain did not contain element 72. By early 1923, several physicists and chemists such as and Charles R.

Bury suggested that element 72 should resemble zirconium and therefore was not part of the rare earth elements group. These suggestions were based on Bohr's theories of the atom, the X-ray spectroscopy of Moseley, and the chemical arguments of. Encouraged by these suggestions and by the reappearance in 1922 of Urbain's claims that element 72 was a rare earth element discovered in 1911, and were motivated to search for the new element in zirconium ores. Hafnium was discovered by the two in 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark, validating the original 1869 prediction of Mendeleev. It was ultimately found in in Norway through X-ray spectroscopy analysis.

The place where the discovery took place led to the element being named for the Latin name for 'Copenhagen', Hafnia, the home town of. Today, the of the uses in its a stylized image of the hafnium atom. Hafnium was separated from zirconium through repeated recrystallization of the double or fluorides by and von Hevesey. And were the first to prepare metallic hafnium by passing hafnium tetraiodide vapor over a heated filament in 1924. This process for differential purification of zirconium and hafnium is still in use today. In 1923, four predicted elements were still missing from the periodic table: 43 and 61 are radioactive elements and are only present in trace amounts in the environment, thus making elements 75 and 72 (hafnium) the last two unknown non-radioactive elements. Since rhenium was discovered in 1908, hafnium was the last element with stable isotopes to be discovered.

Applications Several details contribute to the fact that there are only a few technical uses for hafnium: First, the close similarity between hafnium and zirconium makes it possible to use zirconium for most of the applications; second, hafnium was first available as pure metal after the use in the nuclear industry for hafnium-free zirconium in the late 1950s. Furthermore, the low abundance and difficult separation techniques necessary make it a scarce commodity. Most of the hafnium produced is used in the production of for.

Nuclear reactors The nuclei of several hafnium isotopes can each absorb multiple neutrons. This makes hafnium a good material for use in the control rods for nuclear reactors. Its neutron-capture cross-section is about 600 times that of zirconium. (Other elements that are good neutron-absorbers for control rods are and.) Excellent mechanical properties and exceptional corrosion-resistance properties allow its use in the harsh environment of. The German research reactor uses hafnium as a neutron absorber. It is also common in military reactors, particularity in US naval reactors, but seldom found in civilian ones, the first core of the (a conversion of a naval reactor) being a notable exception. Hafnium-containing rocket nozzle of the Apollo Lunar Module in the lower right corner Hafnium is used in with, and other metals.

An alloy used for thruster nozzles, for example the main engine of the, is C103 which consists of 89% niobium, 10% hafnium and 1% titanium. Small additions of hafnium increase the adherence of protective oxide scales on nickel-based alloys. It improves thereby the resistance especially under cyclic temperature conditions that tend to break oxide scales by inducing thermal stresses between the bulk material and the oxide layer. Microprocessors Hafnium-based compounds are employed in insulators in the 45 nm generation of from, and others. Hafnium oxide-based compounds are practical, allowing reduction of the gate leakage current which improves performance at such scales.

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Isotope geochemistry Isotopes of hafnium and (along with ) are also used in and applications, in. It is often used as a tracer of isotopic evolution of through time. This is because 176Lu decays to 176Hf with a of approximately 37 billion years. In most geologic materials, is the dominant host of hafnium (10,000 ppm) and is often the focus of hafnium studies in. Hafnium is readily substituted into the zircon, and is therefore very resistant to hafnium mobility and contamination. Zircon also has an extremely low Lu/Hf ratio, making any correction for initial lutetium minimal.

Although the Lu/Hf system can be used to calculate a ', i.e. The time at which it was derived from a given isotopic reservoir such as the, these 'ages' do not carry the same geologic significance as do other geochronological techniques as the results often yield isotopic mixtures and thus provide an average age of the material from which it was derived. Is another mineral that contains appreciable amounts of hafnium to act as a geochronometer. The high and variable Lu/Hf ratios found in garnet make it useful for dating events. Other uses Due to its heat resistance and its affinity to oxygen and nitrogen, hafnium is a good scavenger for oxygen and nitrogen in gas-filled and.

Hafnium is also used as the electrode in because of its ability to shed electrons into air. The high energy content of 178m2Hf was the concern of a -funded program in the US. This program determined that the possibility of using a of hafnium (the above-mentioned 178m2Hf) to construct high-yield weapons with X-ray triggering mechanisms—an application of —was infeasible because of its expense. Precautions Care needs to be taken when hafnium because it is —fine particles can spontaneously combust when exposed to air. Compounds that contain this metal are rarely encountered by most people. The pure metal is not considered toxic, but hafnium compounds should be handled as if they were toxic because the ionic forms of metals are normally at greatest risk for toxicity, and limited animal testing has been done for hafnium compounds. People can be exposed to hafnium in the workplace by breathing it in, swallowing it, skin contact, and eye contact.

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The (OSHA) has set the legal limit for exposure to hafnium and hafnium compounds in the workplace as TWA 0.5 mg/m 3 over an 8-hour workday. The (NIOSH) has set the same (REL). At levels of 50 mg/m 3, hafnium is. See also.