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Determination of Electron Distribution and Bonding from Soft X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

J. E. Holliday
J. E. Holliday*
Affiliation:
United States Steel Corporation, Monroeville, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

From measurements of the shift in wavelength with chemical combination, it appears there is very little transfer of charge between the metal and nonmetal atoms for the Group-IV transition-metal carbides and diborides. For Group-VI transition-metal carbides and beyond, there appears to be a definite transfer of charge from the carbon to the metal atom. The bonding in the Group-IV transitionmetal carbides is largely co valent, and metallic for the Group-IV transition-metal diborides. A comparison of shapes of emission bands with crystal structure indicates that, in general, NaCl-type structures have symmetrical peaks with narrow bandwidths compared to hexagonal structure, which have asymmetrical peaks, broad bandwidths, and long tails to the bottom of the bands.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 9: Fourteenth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 25-27, 1965 , 1965 , pp. 365 - 375
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1965

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