• 作者：Khaled Boughzala ; Nadia Gmati ; Khaled Bouzouita ; Ali Ben Cherifa ; Pierre Gravereau
• 关键词：Strontium ; Britholites ; Cesium ; X-ray diffraction ; NMR spectroscopy
• 刊名：Comptes Rendus Chimie
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：November 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：13
• 期：11
• 页码：1377-1383
• 全文大小：231 K

Several studies demonstrated the ability of britholites to retain radionuclides such as the caesium and actinides. Therefore, three compounds with formulas Sr₈LaCs(PO₄)₆F₂, Sr₇La₂Cs(PO₄)₅(SiO₄)F₂ and Sr₂La₇Cs(SiO₄)₆F₂, were prepared by solid state reaction. However, it seems that only the mono-silicated composition was obtained in a pure state. In this present work, the X-ray diffraction and magnetic nuclear resonance have been used to investigate the structure for this composition. The results showed that in fact this phase was not pure, but it was mixed with a secondary phase, SrLaCs(PO₄)₂. The refinement by the Rietveld method allowed also to precise the distribution of La³⁺ and Cs⁺ ions between the two cationic sites of the apatite.