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We have measured photoluminescence spectra of an aqueous uranyl chloride solution under excitation by various light sources: semiconductor light-emitting diodes and cw laser. The excitation wavelength lay within a resonance absorption band of uranyl chloride, which ensured photoluminescence detection at exposure times of 10–3 s using an extremely small volume of the substance (10–9 cm3). The photoluminescence spectra were measured using a small minispectrometer, which allowed us to analyze the spectra in the range 200–1000 nm.
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Gorelik, S.O. Nechipurenko, A.A. Loboiko, Yu.P. Voinov, 2018, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 732–737.
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Gorelik, V.S., Nechipurenko, S.O., Loboiko, A.A. et al. Resonance Excitation of Photoluminescence in an Aqueous Uranyl Chloride Solution. Inorg Mater 54, 694–699 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168518070026
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