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The midrapidity transverse momentum [Formula: see text] distributions of the charged pions and kaons, protons, and antiprotons, measured by ALICE Collaboration at nine centrality groups of Xe[Formula: see text]Xe collisions at [Formula: see text], have been reproduced quite well using simultaneous (combined) minimum [Formula: see text] fits with the simple (non-consistent) as well as thermodynamically consistent Tsallis function with included transverse flow. The parameters [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] extracted in this work using both consistent and non-consistent Tsallis function with included transverse flow demonstrate the similar dependencies on collision centrality [Formula: see text]. The obtained non-extensivity parameter [Formula: see text] values decrease systematically for all studied particle species with increasing Xe[Formula: see text]Xe collision centrality, indicating an increase in degree of system thermalization with increasing centrality of heavy-ion collisions. The average transverse flow velocity demonstrates significantly different growth rates in regions [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], and parameter [Formula: see text] stays constant within uncertainties in [Formula: see text] range in Xe[Formula: see text]Xe collisions at [Formula: see text]. It is argued that [Formula: see text] could possibly be a threshold border value for a crossover transition from a dense hadronic state to the QGP phase (or mixed phase of QGP and hadrons) in Xe[Formula: see text]Xe collisions at [Formula: see text]. Depletion (enhancement) of [Formula: see text] ratio at low [Formula: see text] (intermediate [Formula: see text]) has been observed in this work in Xe[Formula: see text]Xe collisions at [Formula: see text], which agrees with the similar results of ALICE Collaboration obtained recently in high-energy Xe[Formula: see text]Xe and [Formula: see text] collisions at the LHC. Analyzing and reflecting the extracted [Formula: see text] versus [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] versus [Formula: see text] dependencies, we have verified that the depletion (enhancement) of baryon-to-meson ratio at low [Formula: see text] (intermediate [Formula: see text]) values with increasing [Formula: see text] is due to radial flow effects.

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The formal oxidation potentials of the Bk(IV)-Bk(III) pair have been measured and the stability of Bk(IV) in 1 -10M sulfuric acid solutions has been investigated. The rate constants of the self reduction of 249 Bk(IV) in these solutions have been determined.