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Annealing of radiolytic damage in some nitrates. Part 1. - Lead nitrate
(1961) A.G. Maddock; S.R. Mohanty
A kinetic study of the reformation of nitrate from the radiolysis products in irradiated crystalline lead nitrate is presented. The data can be interpreted in terms of a unimolecular recombination, affecting a proportion of the fragments and a bimolecular process, with a higher energy of activation, governing the behaviour of the remainder. Some alternative mechanisms are also considered and an interpretation of the above, preferred, mechanism is given. Annealing of photolytic damage in the same material is also reported.
The Annealing of Radiolytic Damage in Some Nitrates
(1963) A.G. Maddock; S.R. Mohanty
The annealing of radiolytic damage in irradiated potassium and thallium nitrates is quite different from that of lead nitrate. In the case of potassium nitrate the transition introduces a more or less discontinuous recombination of fragments. In the thallium salt the low temperature annealing isotherm is not so very different from lead nitrate but a modest rise in temperature changes the characteristics of the process. Data are also given concerning the behaviour on heating of irradiated barium nitrate, silver nitrate and sodium nitrate. © 1963, Walter de Gruyter. All rights reserved.