Composite wasteform based on SiO2-PbO-CaO-ZrO2-TiO2-(B2O3-K2O) parent glass with zircon as the second component

Ceramics International

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1689-1692

  Malek, M ^a   Khani, M R ^a   Alizadeh, P ^a   Kazemian, H ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. Sintering; B. Composites; C. Chemical properties; E. Nuclear application

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LEACHING; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; POWDERS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

A. SINTERING; B. COMPOSITES; C. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CERAMIC WASTEFORMS; E. NUCLEAR APPLICATION; GLASSY MATRICES; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEAR WASTE IMMOBILIZATIONS; PARENT GLASS; POWDER MIXING; PRESSURELESS SINTERING; PROCESSING CONDITIONS; SEM; SINTERED PRODUCTS; SINTERING TEMPERATURES; X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTIONS; XRD;

SINTERING;

EID: 61449209811     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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