ISSN:
1551-2916
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
Solid-state reaction and annealing of melts of samples in the R2O3-Ta2O5system (R is a rare-earth element, i.e., La, Nd, Sm, Ho, Er, and Yb) revealed a defect-fluorite phase (F-phase) at high temperatures. The formation region of this F-phase was in the region of ˜70-80 mol% R2O3for small rare-earth ions, such as erbium and ytterbium, but only in the region of ˜80 mol% R2O3at temperatures of 〉1800°C for large rare-earth ions, such as the lanthanum-through-samarium series. This F-phase exhibited disordered cation and anion sublattices, such as (R0.8Ta0.2)(O1.7box0.3). The F-phase decomposed to R2O3 and an ordered phase–R3TaO7 (orthorhombic weberite)–through a eutectic reaction at temperatures in the range of 1500°-1700°C for gadolinium or larger rare-earth ions, whereas the F-phase was stable at 1500°C for the small rare-earth ions (the erbium-through-ytterbium series).
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03079.x
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