Plutonium silicide is a binary inorganic compound of plutonium and silicon with the chemical formula PuSi. The compound forms gray crystals.
Synthesis Reaction of plutonium dioxide and silicon carbide:
Reaction of plutonium trifluoride with silicon:
Physical properties Plutonium silicide forms gray crystals of orthorhombic crystal system, space group Pnma, cell parameters: a = 0.7933 nm, b = 0.3847 nm, c = 0.5727 nm, Z = 4, TiSi type structure.
At a temperature of 72 K, plutonium silicide undergoes a ferromagnetic transition.
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