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A coloured article made of a ceramic including an oxide-based matrix and a doped or co-doped component of the aluminium garnet family, and a method for manufacturing the article.
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A method of synthesizing rubidium uranium fluoride crystals. The method includes combining uranium-based feedstock with a mineralizer solution that includes a rubidium fluoride. The feedstock and mineralizer solution are pressurized and a thermal gradient applied thereto such that a first portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution is heated to a temperature that is greater than a temperature of a second portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution. Uranium nutrient enters the mineralizer solution from the feedstock in the first portion and uranium nutrient precipitates to spontaneously form crystals in the second portion.
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Compositions comprising nanosized objects (i.e., nanoparticles) in which at least one observable marker, such as a radioisotope or fluorophore, is incorporated within the nanosized object. The nanosized objects include, for example, metal or semi-metal oxide (e.g., silica), quantum dot, noble metal, magnetic metal oxide, organic polymer, metal salt, and core-shell nanoparticles, wherein the label is incorporated within the nanoparticle or selectively in a metal oxide shell of a core-shell nanoparticle. Methods of preparing the volume-labeled nanoparticles are also described.
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A forensic marker is disclosed including a marker that is added to the host material and is detectable for at least the expected life of the host material. The marker is inert with respect to the host material in that it does not significantly affect the desired qualities of the host material (e.g. weight, adhesive properties, structural integrity, etc). The marker is detectable, for example, by instruments, during the life of the host material.
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Materials and methods of making low-sintering-temperature glass waste forms that sequester radioactive iodine in a strong and durable structure. First, the iodine is captured by an adsorbant, which forms an iodine-loaded material, e.g., AgI, AgI-zeolite, AgI-mordenite, Ag-silica aerogel, ZnI2, CuI, or Bi5O7I. Next, particles of the iodine-loaded material are mixed with powdered frits of low-sintering-temperature glasses (comprising various oxides of Si, B, Bi, Pb, and Zn), and then sintered at a relatively low temperature, ranging from 425° C. to 550° C. The sintering converts the mixed powders into a solid block of a glassy waste form, having low iodine leaching rates. The vitrified glassy waste form can contain as much as 60 wt % AgI. A preferred glass, having a sintering temperature of 500° C. (below the silver iodide sublimation temperature of 500° C.) was identified that contains oxides of boron, bismuth, and zinc, while containing essentially no lead or silicon.
摘要翻译:制造低烧结温度玻璃废物的材料和方法形成了强大耐用的结构中的放射性碘。 首先,碘被吸附剂捕获,该吸附剂形成碘负载材料,例如AgI,AgI-沸石,Ag1-丝光沸石,Ag-二氧化硅气凝胶,ZnI 2,CuI或Bi 5 O 7。 接下来,将负载碘的材料的颗粒与低烧结温度玻璃(包括各种Si,B,Bi,Pb和Zn的氧化物)的粉状玻璃料混合,然后在比较低的温度下从425 ℃至550℃。烧结将混合粉末转化为具有低碘浸出速率的玻璃状废物形式的固体块。 玻璃化玻璃废物形式可含有多达60重量%的AgI。 确定了烧结温度为500℃(低于碘化银升华温度为500℃)的玻璃,其含有硼,铋和锌的氧化物,同时基本上不含铅或硅。
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Special high performance wavelength shifting compositions has been discovered and devised. Further, these compositions when properly distributed in a bulk medium having cooperative properties forms new media having totally unique and useful characteristics. In particular, a special phosphor is devised having a dual peak spectral output when stimulated with high energy photonic input. A dual activator formula is created such that simple manipulation of specified ratios permits flexibility in tuning of color temperature output of the phosphor emitter combination. When prepared with preferred particle sizes and densities, performance improvements are observed. Finally, these phosphors are combined with other special binder materials to form colloid media with well designed optical interaction cross section whereby light emitted from a high intensity blue diode semiconductor will experience just enough wavelength shift in precisely the desired portions of the spectrum, with high efficiency, to form a white LED not found in other systems.
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Additives are proposed for compositions comprising radiolabelled organic compounds e.g. 32P-labelled nucleotides. Stabilizers are selected from tryptophan, para-aminobenzoate, indoleacetate and the azole group. Dyes are selected from Sulphorhodamine B, Xylene Cyanol, Azocarmine B and New Coccine. Preferred compositions contain both stabilizer and dye.
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Novel compounds obtainable by reacting together an imido-reagent such as diphenylphosphonimido-triphenylphosphorane), or a phosphine oxide such as p-tolyldiphenylphosphine oxide, with a chelate of a transition or lanthanide or actinide metal, such as tris(dibenzoylmethide)europium III, have the property of fluorescing in UV radiation. The invention includes solid polymer bodies containing such compounds, or chelates of transition or lanthanide or actinide metals generally, the bodies having the property of emitting light or infra-red radiation when subjected to a flux of ultra-violet or ionising radiation by virtue of internally generated, e.g. by tritium ionising radiation. The body is preferably of polystyrene formed by polymerising the monomer in the presence of the compound or metal chelate.
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A process for treating alkaline wastes for vitrification. The process involves acidifying the wastes with an oxidizing agent such as nitric acid, then adding formic acid as a reducing agent, and then mixing with glass formers to produce a melter feed. The nitric acid contributes nitrates that act as an oxidant to balance the redox of the melter feed, prevent reduction of certain species to produce conducting metals, and lower the pH of the wastes to a suitable level for melter operation. The formic acid reduces mercury compounds to elemental mercury for removal by steam stripping, and MnO.sub.2 to the Mn(II) ion to prevent foaming of the glass melt. The optimum amounts of nitric acid and formic acid are determined in relation to the composition of the wastes, including the concentrations of mercury (II) and MnO.sub.2, noble metal compounds, nitrates, formates and so forth. The process minimizes the amount of hydrogen generated during treatment, while producing a redox-balanced feed for effective melter operation and a quality glass product.
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An active material for the manufacture of laser rods, having the chemical composition expressed by the formula A.sub.1+x B.sub.1-y C.sub.3-x O.sub.7-0.5 x, wherein A is barium, strontium, calcium, or a mixture thereof; B is lanthanum, yttrium, or a mixture thereof; C is gallium, aluminum, or a mixture thereof; and x and y assume both positive and negative values from -0.12 to +0.12;; and as a dopant an active element chosen from the group consisting of praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, erbium, thulium and ytterbium in an amount of from 0.02 to 8.33 atomic percent.