Abstract
The principles of mass and charge conservation apply simultaneously to the disproportionation reactions of plutonium. New formulas for the Pu oxidation number can be generated from a bilinear equation. The new formulas are applied to the analysis of experimental errors in reported oxidation-state distributions for plutonium. Three methods of error analysis are illustrated by examples.
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Silver, G.L. The conservation principles and plutonium disproportionation reactions. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 311, 2123–2127 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-5149-y
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