Protactinium(V) oxide is a chemical compound with the formula Pa₂ O₅. When it is reduced with

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, it forms PaO₂. Aristid V. Grosse was first to prepare 2 mg of Pa₂O₅ in 1927. Pa₂O₅ does not dissolve in concentrated HNO₃, but dissolves in HF and in a HF + H₂SO₄ mixture and reacts at high temperatures with solid oxides of alkali metal and

alkaline earth metal The alkaline earth metals are six chemical elements in group 2 of the periodic table. They are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra).. The elements have very similar properties: they are ...

s.Boris F. Myasoedov, H. W. Kirby, & Ivan G. Tananaev (2006) Protactinium, Chapter 4 in Morss, Lester R. & Edelstein, Norman M. & Fuger, Jean, (edit.
The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements
(PDF) (3. painos). Dordrecht: Springer. ss. 161–252. As protactinium(V) oxide, like other protactinium compounds, is

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, toxic and very rare, it has very limited technological use. Mixed oxides of Nb, Mg, Ga and Mn, doped with 0.005–0.52% Pa₂O₅, have been used as high temperature

dielectric In electromagnetism, a dielectric (or dielectric medium) is an electrical insulator that can be polarised by an applied electric field. When a dielectric material is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the m ...

s (up to 1300 °C) for

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