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Turkey has the world’s largest boron reserves. Colemanite is one of these minerals. A large amount of waste is produced during the production of boric acid from colemanite. In this study, usability of boron wastes (BW, borogypsum) and barite as a radiation shielding materials was investigated. Six compositions were shaped with various ratios of borogypsum and barite. After drying, shaped samples were sintered at 1050 °C. Sintered samples were evaluated for density, water absorption, porosity and gamma ray radiation shielding. The best attenuation coefficients were 0.225678, 0.148848 and 0.142652 cm−1 at 662, 1173 and 1332 keV photon energies, respectively.
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The authors would like to thank Prof. Dr. Bahri ERSOY and Res. Assist. Hakan ÇİFTÇİ, Mining Engineering Department, Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey, for their help in the preparation of samples.
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Çelen, Y.Y., Evcin, A., Akkurt, I. et al. Evaluation of boron waste and barite against radiation. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 16, 5267–5274 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-019-02333-3
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