Preparation of optimized uranium and thorium bearing brabantite or monazite/brabantite solid solutions

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3673-3682

  Terra, Olivier ^a,b   Dacheux, Nicolas ^a,c   Clavier, Nicolas ^a,c   Podor, Renaud ^c,d   Audubert, Fabienne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; GRINDING (MACHINING); MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; RARE EARTHS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; THORIUM DEPOSITS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CATION DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSES; GENERAL FORMULAS; PARTIAL OXIDATIONS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRIES; RARE EARTH ORTHOPHOSPHATE; SOLID-STATE PROCESS; UNIT CELL PARAMETERS;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 56749155342     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2008.02678.x     Document Type: Article

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