Abstract: Sulfides of Group IVb and Vb transition metals are produced by reacting their halides with carbon disulfide. The reactions can be between liquid or gaseous halides and liquid or gaseous carbon disulfide. The reaction products are formed and recovered as solids and the other reaction product, carbon tetrahalide, is carried off as a gas and recovered. A specific example is the production of titanium disulfide by reacting titanium tetrachloride with carbon disulfide.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electric current-producing cell which contains:A cathode having as its cathode-active material one or more compounds selected from:(i) those having the formula:(NH.sub.4).sub.x MoZ.sub.y (1)wherein Z is a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium, sulfur-selenium mixtures, sulfur-oxygen mixtures and selenium-oxygen mixtures, wherein x is a numerical value of about 2, and wherein y is a numerical value of about 4;(ii) compounds of the above formula wherein one or more hydrogens is substituted with a radical selected from alkyl radicals having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and alkyl amine radicals having 1 to 20 carbon atoms;(iii) those having the formula:(NH.sub.3 --R--NH.sub.3)MoZ.sub.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electric current-producing cell which contains:A cathode having as its cathode-active material one or more vanadium compounds selected from:(i) those having the formula:V.sub.a Z.sub.b (1)wherein Z is a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium, and sulfur-selenium mixtures, wherein a is a numerical value of about 2, and wherein b is a numerical value of bout 4.5 to about 7;(ii) those having the formula:(NA.sub.4).sub.x VZ.sub.y (2)wherein Z is a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium, and sulfur-selenium mixtures, wherein x is a numerical value of about 2 to about 4, and wherein y is a numerical value of about 3 to about 5; and,(iii) those having the formula:H.sub.m (NH.sub.4).sub.n VZ.sub.

Abstract: Thermonuclear fuel elements used as targets which are radiated by pulse laser radiation of high energy level to produce laser fusion as for thermonuclear energy generation are made out of materials not heretofore available for such use. Such materials are deuterium compounds which could not be fabricated into spheres suitable for laser fusion targets by the melting or freezing methods of fabricating such fuel elements which were heretofore available, since such compounds are peritectic (viz., they decompose or sublimate before melting can occur). By grinding bodies of such deuterium compounds, laser fuel elements are provided of the requisite minute size and spherical configuration such that they are available for use in quantity as thermonuclear fuel elements in laser fusion apparatus.