Talk:Plutonium(IV) oxide

Not linear (or bent), and probably unlike most common oxides (see Rutile). how is this stuff made? elements are not capitalized. Smokefoot 19:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

and where does the plutonium oxalate come from?

If I remember correctly, the uranium(VI) and plutonium(IV) are extracted into nitric acid, then the plutonium is precipitated as the oxalate. see Nuclear reprocessing. Physchim62 (talk) 00:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Could someone please susbtantiate the claim that touching the material can result in serious injury? Of course it can, but not a quick touch? Or? --Kjetil Kjernsmo 14:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I think you're more likely to be poisoned by it than hurt by the alpha decay. --202.6.116.251 01:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

In section "Synthesis": "Plutonium oxide contamination has resulted in a number of military nuclear accidents where nuclear weapons have burned." I doubt that PuO2 contamination has caused nuclear accidents. But in accidents, Plutonium is likely to burn, making oxide, and to be dispersed, making it contamination. I take that to be the intended meaning. There is an ambiguous association [resulted<->in] : (contamination (resulted in) accidents), vs., ((contamination resulted)(in accidents)). Can we adjust the grammar? jimswen (talk) 10:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

It seemed to be spontanteosly oxidized Pu; thus I believe that phrase did not belong here and moved to plutonium article. Materialscientist (talk) 12:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

O2Pu

Why does the chemical properties box list this as O₂Pu? Nobody ever puts the anion first in a chemical formula. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 18:02, 29 November 2013 (UTC)