US PATENT SUBCLASS 148 / 560
.~.~ Actinide or trans-actinide metal or alloy having greater than 50 percent actinide or trans-actinide metals

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148 /   HD   METAL TREATMENT

95  DF  PROCESS OF MODIFYING OR MAINTAINING INTERNAL PHYSICAL STRUCTURE (I.E., MICROSTRUCTURE) OR CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL, PROCESS OF REACTIVE COATING OF METAL AND PROCESS OF CHEMICAL-HEAT REMOVING (E.G., FLAME-CUTTING, ETC.) OR BURNING OF METAL {17}
559  DF  .~ Heating or cooling of solid metal {22}
560.~.~ Actinide or trans-actinide metal or alloy having greater than 50 percent actinide or trans-actinide metals

DEFINITION

Classification: 148/560

Actinide or trans-actinide metal or alloy having greater than 50 percent actinide or trans-actinide metals:

(under subclass 559) Process wherein the metal undergoing treatment is a metal or metal alloy having greater than 50 percent of actinide or a trans-actinide metal or greater than 50 percent of a combination of different actinide and/or trans-actinide metals in the alloy.

(1) Note. The actinide or trans-actinide metals include: actinium (Ac); thorium (Th); protactinium (Pa); uranium (U); neptunium (Np); plutonium (Pu); americium (Am); curium (Cm); berkelium (Bk); californium (Cf); einsteinium (Es); fermium (Fm); mendelevium (Md); nbelium (No); and lawrencium (Lr).