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. 2018 Dec 17;6:604. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00604

Table 2.

Water content (n), enthalpy of dehydration (ΔHdehydr), transition (ΔHtrans) and reaction (ΔHreact) of rhabdophane to monazite plus water estimated from DSC and high temperature drop solution calorimetry.

RE Water content
(n)
ΔHdehydr
kJ mol−1 of sample
ΔHdehydr
kJ mol−1 of water
ΔHtrans
kJ mol−1 of sample
ΔΔHreactDSC
kJ mol−1
ΔΔHreactoxmelt 
kJ mol−1
La 0.804 59.1 73.5 −14.4 9.3 ± 5 −3.19 ± 1.58
Ce 0.732 50.0 68.3 −15.9 1.9 ± 5 16.79 ± 1.18
Pr 0.709 52.6 74.1 −15.2 6.1 ± 5 −4.57 ± 2.99
Nd 0.746 50.2 67.2 −23.1 −5.7 ± 5 0.82 ± 1.80
Sm 0.636 46.9 73.8 −18.5 0.4 ± 5 9.36 ± 1.61
Eu 0.555 43.9 79.2 −16.6 2.9 ± 5 13.25 ± 1.47
Gd 0.533 49.5 86.1 −21.2 1.3 ± 5 10.65 ± 1.33
Average: 50.3 ± 1.4* 74.6 ± 1.8*
*

Error is calculated as two standard deviations of the mean.