actinoid element: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
The chemistry of the actinoid group is presented in Lester R. Morss, Norman M. Edelstein, and Jean Fuger (eds.), The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements (4th ed., 2010); Helen C. Aspinall, Chemistry of the f-Block Elements (2001); Nikolas Kaltsoyannis and Peter Scott, The f Elements (1999); K.W. Bagnall, The Actinide Elements (1972); and Glenn T. Seaborg and Joseph J. Katz (eds.), The Actinide Elements (1954). More specialized monographs are Norman M. Edelstein (ed.), Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry and Spectroscopy (1980); and Norman M. Edelstein, James D. Navratil, and Wallace W. Schulz (eds.), Americium and Curium Chemistry and Technology (1985).
Larned B. Asprey Lester MorssArticle Contributors
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Larned B. Asprey
Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1949–86. Author of numerous papers on the actinide, rare-earth, transuranium, and halogen elements.
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Lester Morss
Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - General Properties and Reactions of The Actinides. | Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 27, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 12, 2013 | ||
| The word "actinide" was modified to "actinoid." Discussion of IUPAC preference for "actinoid" over "actinide" added. The word "lanthanide" was modified to "lanthanoid." | Jan 12, 2011 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |
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