Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of α-phase LuH0.17 indicated that H diffusion at temperatures of 60 to 100C were governed by an activation energy of 6.40kcal/mol. It was assumed that a statistical distribution of H atoms existed within the octahedral interstices of the Lu structure.

H.Barrere, M.T.Kim: Comptes Rendus, 1971, 273[19], 823-5