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Conversion to a gaseous form[edit]

"At temperatures below 64.1 °C and a pressure of 1.5 atm, the solid DUHF converts to a gaseous form and bypasses the liquid phase"

I think that this verbiage is misleading. There is an impression, that you need to have temperatures *below* 64.1 °C for DUHF to convert to a gaseous form.

Most likely the opposite is true: [1]https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/P1005MCO.PDF?Dockey=P1005MCO.PDF

8.4 Storage of Depleted Uranium DU is not stored widely around the country; the majority of the inventor y of DU is stored at United States Enrichm ent Corporation (USEC) sites or at DOE sites. DU stored by the military is only a fraction of the to tal. It should be noted that under the Ato mic Energy Act (AEA), the storage of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) is self-regulated by the DOE. DU i s mainly stor ed in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF 6), whic h is a colorl ess high molecular weight (352) solid, at a mbient temperature. It is readily transformed into a gas at at mospheric pres sure by raising its temperature above 56.5o C, and into a l iquid b y increasing the pressure and tem perature above 1.5 atm ospheres and 64 o C. All thre e phases, solid, liquid and gas, coexist at 64o C

Merlin.anthwares (talk) 17:52, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]