| | The Actinide Research Quarterly: 1st Quarter 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The chemistry and physics of the actinide elements (uranium, neptunium, plutonium, etc.) have always been of prime importance at Los Alamos, beginning with the early efforts to characterize the chemistry of plutonium during the Manhattan Project. |
 | | The actinide series marks the emergence of 5f electrons in the valence shell. |
 | | Plutonium is trapped in the middle, and for the delta-phase metal, the electrons seem to be in a unique state of being neither fully delocalized nor localized, which leads to novel electronic interactions and unusual physical and chemical behavior. |
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