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| Author(s): |
Jessica Mosqueira Yauri
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2005-11-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Shigueo Watanabe;
Noelio Oliveira Dantas;
Marcia Carvalho de Abreu Fantini;
Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto;
Letícia Lucente Campos Rodrigues
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| Advisor: | Shigueo Watanabe |
| Abstract | |
Garnet is a group of six silicates with the same crystal structure but with chemical formula differing by their cations. Grossular of chemical formula Ca3AlzSi3012 is the second most abundant garnet in Brazil and probably the most colorful of the garnets. Two samples of grossular, named GV and GVI were obtained of Araçuai-Minas Gerais difIering by impurities content. These samples were pulverized and sieved for termoluminescence (TL) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements. Polished plates of 2.0mm thickness were prepared for optical absorption (AO) measurements. The X-ray fluorescence has revealed several kinds of impurities, being the most important 1,37mol% of Fe203 in GV e, 6,2mol% in GVI, 1,03mol% of MnO in GV and O,26mol% in GVI, O,66mol% of MgO in GV and 0,72mol% in GVI, which might participate as extrinsic defects in the samples. The TL glow curve of natural samples shows a high temperature peak at 470°C that is greater in GVI than in GV. Samples heat treated at 600°C/1h and irradiated with different gamma dose present peaks at 145, 235 and 335°C in GV and, 145 200, 250, 335 and 445°C in GVI. However, the glow curve deconvolution shows that in fact GV is formed by six peaks and GVI by seven peaks overlapped. While, the low temperature peaks increase with the dose in GV, it is the last peak in GVI (340°C) that increases fast keeping its individuality, however a similar sublinear dependence with the irradiation dose was founded for both samples. Other differences between these samples refer to the behavior with the pre-irradiation anneal temperature, namely increase in the TL sensibilities observed only in GV and a caotic behavior in GVI. The UV irradiation produces decay in TL intensity with exposure time. The residual TL diminishes with the peak temperature in GV, being opposite in GVI. The iron and manganese ions can replace some ions in the grossular structure. The crystal field analysis shows that the Fe3+ ions occupy tetrahedral and octahedral sites replacing AI and Si, similarly Ca can be substituited by Fe2+ and Mn2+ in the dodecahedral position. The EPR spectra show signals in g=4.3, g=6.0 related to the iron and g=2.004 signal is due to the dipolar and exchange interactions between M 712+ and Fé+ ions. The high temperature heat treatment of the samples give rise to the change from Fe2+ to Fe3+ by oxidation and from Mn3+ to Mn2+ . No correlation between the defects responsible for the AO and EPR spectra and the TL centers was found. (AU) | |