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The transition metal nitrides are in many respects closely allied to the carbides: in structure, properties (metallic nature, high melting points and hardness in the early Groups) and in their fields of practical application. Also their stability and occurrence within the frame of the Periodic System is similar to those of the carbides. There are, however, important differences, largely bound up with the trivalency of the nitrogen atom against quadri-valency of carbon which entails rather weaker bonds from metal to non-metal. The difference in atomic size is relatively slight, and the curious ambiguity in relative size of the interstitial N and C atoms has been referred to already (Chapter 2): this presents the N atom as the smaller for Group IV, V, VI nitrides (N = 0·69, C = 0·77 Å radius), but with an ascendancy in size over C on passing to Group VII-VIII nitrides. The latter is best shown in Jack’s work on the iron nitrides and carbides, to be discussed below.
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Selected Literature
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Goldschmidt, H.J. (1967). Nitrides. In: Interstitial Alloys. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5880-8_5
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