Predicting the spinel-nepheline liquidus for application to nuclear waste glass processing. Part I: Primary phase analysis, liquidus measurment, and quasicrystalline approach

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1866-1879

  Jantzen, Carol M ^a,b   Brown, Kevin G ^a,c  

^a SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACMITE; GLASS MELTS; LIQUIDUS MODELS; NEPHELINE; QUATERNARY SYSTEMS;

ALUMINA; BASALT; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERRITES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

GLASS;

EID: 34249855563     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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