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Flux growth of rare earth silicates and aluminosilicates

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Crystals of R2SiO5, R2Si2O7, rare earth apatites, and square-faceted rare earth aluminium garnets containing silicon have been grown from fluxed melts. Silicon was provided in two ways: by vapour transport of a siliceous vapour species which diffused into the melts (“vapour-flux” method), and by including SiO2 in the initial mixtures. The results of these two methods are compared.

The materials have been characterized by X-ray diffraction and, in some cases, by EPMA. Powder pattern data for some of the rare earth apatites are included.

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  1. Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

    B. M. Wanklyn & F. R. Wondre

  2. Code 60, Michaelson Laboratories, US Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, USA

    G. B. Ansell

  3. School of Physics, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    W. Davison

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Wanklyn, B.M., Wondre, F.R., Ansell, G.B. et al. Flux growth of rare earth silicates and aluminosilicates. J Mater Sci 9, 2007–2014 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00540550

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