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Size distribution of huntite-borate crystals grown by spontaneous crystallization from flux

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Valery I. Chani
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980, Japan
Keiji Inoue
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980, Japan
Kiyoshi Shimamura
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980, Japan
Tsuguo Fukuda
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980, Japan
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Abstract

Rare-earth huntite-borates R(Al, Ga)3(BO3)4, where R = Yb, Er, and/or Nd, were grown by spontaneous crystallization from fluxes based on Bi2O3-B2O3. Crystals were removed from the melts and selected to different size fractions using meshes. It was found that dependence of weight for each size fraction on size in double logarithm coordinates was close to a symmetrical function. The dependence of logarithm of crystal amount on size was almost linear.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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