ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIOURS OF LANTHANIDE FLUORIDES IN THE ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM WITH LiF-NaF-KF SALT
As a part of partitioning studies, the experiments of cyclic voltammetry and electrolytic reduction with the liquid bismuth cathode were conducted to investigate electrochemical behaviours of lanthanide elements in the electrorefining system employing LiF-NaF-KF eutectic salt as the electrolyte. The cyclic voltammograms for NdF3 and GdF3 were obtained at various potential scan rates, respectively. The cathodic and anodic peak currents of the elements increased in proportion to the square root of the potential scan rate. According to changes of the potential difference between the coupled cathodic and anodic peaks, reversibilities of the reduction-oxidation reactions in this system were evaluated. In addition, further behaviours of electrochemical reaction of the elements were examined through electrolytic tests of the system using liquid bismuth as the cathode at fixed current densities.
Molten Salt Techniques
This fourth volume in the series opens some new arenas in the realm of molten salts technology, with research reports on amides, amide mixtures, and their electrochemical properties; chromatography in liquid organic salts; thermal conductivity; magnetic, calorimetric, and ultra-high-pressure measure
Commentary on Judith Fingert Chused’s “An Analyst’s Uncertainty and Fear”
Chused’s lovely clinical report is not only a cri de coeur from the trenches by a master clinical analyst. With her honest description of her ongoing countertransference experience and her sensitivity to telling nuance and detail, she provides us with a rare document that allows us to consider the unfolding of the transference-countertransference and intersubjective matrices of the analytic process in all their messiness, complexity, and moment-to-moment unfathomability. Chused avoids the preprocessed, neatly shrink-wrapped reports of momentary countertransference experiences, seemingly quickly thought through, sanitized of their inevitable infiltration by still-unresolved intrapsychic conflicts of the analyst, and transformed into mutative interpretations—in short, the kind of report that we sometimes see in our literature—and instead allows us to focus on a different but equally important realm of intersubjective experience: the enmeshment of irreducible or only partially reducible aspects of the analyst’s and the patient’s intrapsychic lives, as well as their fate in the analytic process and in the post-termination self-analytic reflections of both. Partly because of the richness of Chused’s report, and partly because of the always tentative quality of understanding that may be reached as