X-Ray And Phase Analysis Of Sio2 Glass

Abstract

The formation of nanosized particles in pure silica glass irradiated in water in the reactor core with fast neutrons up to 1019 cm-2 and gamma radiation has been studied by optical spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. Irradiation with neutrons leads to the destruction of the initial mesostructure of a - and β - quartz with dimensions of 1.7 and 1.2 nm and the formation of cristobalite and tridymite nanocrystallites with dimensions of 16 and 8 nm in displacement thermal peaks.