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Developments in Analytical Diffraction Using Isotopic X-Ray Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
Abstract
Lobov et al., in Leningrad, and workers at this laboratory have been working on the idea of using x rays from radioactive sources for x ray diffraction analysis. The Russians have been using iron-55 produced by the (n, Y) reaction in their work with a small focusing camera which operates in the back reflection region. We have been using iron-55 produced by the (p,n) reaction in conjunction with a small Debye-Scherrer camera. The preliminary work of this laboratory was reported at this conference two years ago. At that time a 13 mCi iron-55 source was used in a two inch diameter Debye-Scherrer camera to obtain x-ray diffraction patterns of LiF. The exposure times were of the order of 120 hours and the reflection from the 200 plane was about 3 degrees wide. Since that time a new and more intense source has been constructed at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. With the new source it was possible to produce LiF diffraction patterns of the same density and resolution as before in a period of less than ten hours.
The above mentioned diffraction patterns were made with the LiF powder placed in a 1.0 mm diameter glass capillary. After reduction of the glass capillary diameter to 0.5 mm and appropriate reduction of the collimator width, we were able to improve the resolution considerably with no accompanying reduction in line density. The LiF patterns obtained in this way required an exposure time of about 20 hours and the width of the reflection from the 200 plane has been reduced to about 1.5 degrees.
Hence we are able to report a reduction in exposure time from 116 hours to 20 hours and an increase in resolution by a factor of two over the data reported here two years ago. Thus the concept of using x rays from an isotope for powder diffraction has changed from a laboratory curiosity into a technique with practical possibilities. Both sources mentioned above were produced by the (p, n) reaction. The 135 mCi source had a specific activity of about 400 Ci/gm. Since iron-55 sources have been made with specific activities of about 1000 Ci/gm, a considerable decrease in exposure time could be accomplished by using such a source. The application to this work of a position sensitive proportional counter as developed by Semmler will also be discussed.
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