Determination of the potential for extrinsic color development in natural colorless quartz

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 935-941

  Nunes, Eduardo Henrique ^a   Melo, ValéRia ^a   Lameiras, Fernando ^a   Liz, OtáVio ^a   Pinheiro, André ^a   Machado, Geraldo ^a   Vasconcelos, Wander ^b  

^a Campus da UFMG Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Color; Heating; Infrared spectrometry; Irradiation; Quartz

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CRYSTALS; GAMMA RAYS; HEATING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; QUARTZ; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ADDITIONAL HEATING; COLOR DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; INFRARED SPECTRUM; QUARTZ LATTICE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

IRRADIATION;

COLOR; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; HEATING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LATTICE DYNAMICS; QUARTZ; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 68949119911     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3043     Document Type: Article

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