Elastic behavior and phase stability of pollucite, a potential host for nuclear waste

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1137-1143

  Gatta, G Diego ^a,b   Rotiroti, Nicola ^a,b   Ballaran, Tiziana Boffa ^c   Sanchez Valle, Carmen ^d   Pavese, Alessssandrndrndro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compressibility; High pressure; Nuclear waste disposal material; Phase transition; Pollucite; Single crystal X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CESIUM; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPRESSIBILITY; CRYSTALLINITY; ELASTIC MODULI; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF SOLIDS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PHASE STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SILICATES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SODIUM METALLOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIRCH-MURNAGHAN EQUATION OF STATE; BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERING; HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE; INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; POLLUCITES; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ZEOLITES;

COMPRESSIBILITY; CRYSTALLINITY; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; ELASTIC PROPERTY; EQUATION OF STATE; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOELASTICITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 76649099192     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3195     Document Type: Article

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