BARC/PUB/2005/0488

 
 

Synthesis and characterization of mixed fluorides with PbF2 and ScF3

 
     
 
Author(s)

Achary, S. N.; Tyagi, A. K.
(ApCD)

Source

Powder Diffraction, 2005. Vol. 20 (3): pp. 254-258

ABSTRACT

A series of mixed fluoride compositions with PbF2 and ScF3 were prepared by heating the intimate mixtures of component fluorides at 600 °C for 10 h followed by slowly cooling to room temperature. The products obtained were analyzed by powder XRD to reveal the phases present in them and hence the low-temperature phase equilibria in the PbF2-ScF3 system. The phase equilibria show the fluorite-type solid solution up to the composition of about 15 mol% of ScF3 in the PbF2 lattice. The unit cell volume decreases with increasing ScF3 contents in the fluorite-type solid solutions. Beyond the solubility limit, the biphasic mixture of the cubic fluorite-type solid solution and leftover ScF3 is found to exist

 
 
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