The Annealing of Radiolytic Damage in Some Nitrates

Abstract

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.