Isotope Exchange between <sup>18</sup>O<sub>2</sub> Gas and Mechanoactivated Oxide NdMnO<sub>3+δ</sub>

Abstract

sotope exchange of oxygen 18О2 with oxides NdMnO3+δ was investigated. The oxide was obtained from oxides Nd2O3 and Mn2O3 using a ceramic technology with annealing in air at 1400°C for 90 hours followed by cooling in a furnace. A planetary mill AGO-2 with a centrifugal factor of g = 60 was used for mechanical treatment of oxides. The study of isotope exchange was carried out by nuclear microanalysis. The concentration of the isotopes 18O and 16O in oxides was determined using a Van de Graaff accelerator and 18O(p, α)15N and 16O(d, p)17O* reactions at the energies of incident beams 762 and 900 keV. Isothermal annealing of powders was carried out in oxygen, enriched to 80% by the isotope 18O. It was established that the concentration of the isotope 18O in mechanically activated powders was several times higher than in the initial micropowder under the same conditions of annealing. The effect increased with increasing of mechanical activation time (30 - 300 s). The isotope exchange parameters connected with the processes at the boundaries of the particles of mechano-activated powder and within their volume were analyzed.