Thermal Etching on Calcite Cleavages

Thermal etch pits are observed on calcite cleavages at very small range of temperatures in atmosphere. Different characteristics such as nonmovement of cleavage lines and dislocations, thermal percussion by gas molecules, are observed in thermal etching. It is found that chemical and thermal etching are not the same process for calcite cleavage etching. The origin of thermal etch pits is not at dislocations intersecting the cleavage surfaces.     

Chemical Etching of Calcite Cleavages by Diluted Solutions

Very low concentration of mineral acids and monocarboxylic acid (less then 0.001%) produces triangular etch pits on calcite cleavages at dislocations intersecting the surface. The orienation of triangular etch pits is opposite with respect to percussion mark on calcite cleavages. This may be due to opposite process of percussion and reaction at very low concentrations. When percentage of water is slightly decreased in both above acids, rhombic etch pits were formed. The non-coincidence of depth points and geometerical centres of rhombic etch pits are explained. The similarity of shape cycle will not hold at higher concentrations.     

Dehydration of Selenite Cleavage Faces

Initial dehydration of selenite cleavage surfaces start at temperature 86 °C. The dislocations are revealed by distilled water. Dislocations are mobile at dehydration temperature. Impurity centres may act as obstacles for dislocation movement. Dehydration figures are in probability formed at impurity centres.     

Eccentricity of symmetrical and asymmetrical etch pits on calcite cleavages

There are two types of chemical eccentric etch pits.

• (1) Deepest points are always lying on the shorter diagonal. – Symmetrical etch pits the deepest points of which lying on the diagonals show dislocation lines in the plane (110). Eccentricity of symmetrical etch pits along the [110] direction is depending on the concentration of the etchant and on the inclination of the dislocation line in the plane (110).
• (2) Depth points do not lie on any diagonals. Eccentricity of asymmetrical etch pits along the [110] direction is depending on the concentration of the etchant and on the inclination of the dislocation line in the plane (110).

     

Dose distribution in electron-irradiated PMMA: effect of dose and geometry

Depth-dose distributions for an electron beam are generally determined with either a stack irradiation geometry or a wedge (generally with an angle of about 50°–60°) made from an electrically-conducting material (such as, aluminium) or a non-conducting material (such as, PMMA). If the non-conducting wedge is thicker than the electron range, the stored charge in the material could influence the measured depth-dose distribution. This effect was investigated for 7-MeV electrons for PMMA with the wedge angle varying from 0° to 60°. The maximum-to-surface dose ratio was used as a characteristic parameter of the shape of the distribution. The depth-dose distribution measured by a dosimetry film placed inside the wedge-pair was similar to the standard shape when the wedge angle was larger than about 55° (dose ratio 1.5). However, as the angle was decreased, this ratio sharply increased almost linearly up to about 15°, and then leveled off at about 3. We also studied the effect of the surface dose on this dose ratio for the wedge angle of 0°, where we found that the ratio increased with the dose. Both of these effects can be explained by the presence of the electrostatic field around the dosimetry film due to stored charge in the non-conducting PMMA.     

Gross dissolution of natural rhombohedral calcite crystal in nitric acid

Gross dissolution of natural calcite crystal in concentrated nitric acid give interesting results. The gross dissolution is maximum at 6 M concentration of HNO₃. The activation energy increases as the concentration of HNO₃ increases. Similarly pre-exponential factor is also increases as concentration increases. The combined effect of activation energy and pre-exponentail factor gives the peak at 6 M concentration of nitric acid.     

Two-dimensional cell parameters measurement of nematic liquid crystal using optical interferometry and Fourier transform fringe analysis technique

We report a method for the measurement of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) cell parameters i.e., switching voltage, birefringence, retardation, dielectric anisotropy, average tilt angle and change in refractive index with applied DC voltage to LC material. The proposed method is based on optical interferometry and Fourier transform fringe analysis technique, in which we obtain 2-dimensional (2D) phase map of the interferograms as a function of applied voltage. Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was used for the study of cell parameters and interferograms were recorded at different applied DC voltages to NLC cell using CCD camera. From the phase map, 2D-refractive index distribution of the LC cell with applied voltage was reconstructed. Analytical equations are derived based on optical interferometry and then solved to obtain cell parameters. The present method is fast and can give 2D-cell parameters from only two quick interferograms.     

Cumulant functions in optical coherence theory

Cumulant functions are introduced to describe the statistical state of a radiation field. These functions are simply related to the optical coherence functions but have some interesting features. It is shown that if the cumulant functions of all orders greater than some numberN ₀ vanish then they also vanish for all orders greater than 2. Thermal field is the only field having this property. This property holds whether the field is described by a classical stochastic process or by a quantum density operator. Further the particular operator ordering used in defining these cumulant functions for the quantized field affects only the second order cumulant function. To describe the statistical state of a vector field such as partially polarized or unpolarized radiation, one would need to introduce cumulant tensors.     

Temperature dependent small-angle neutron scattering of CTABr—magnetic fluid emulsion

Small-angle neutron scattering studies have been carried out to check the structural integrity of citryltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr) micelles in a magnetic fluid for different magnetic fluid concentrations at two different temperatures 303 and 333 K. It is found that the CTABr micelles grow with increasing magnetic fluid concentration and there is a decrease in the micellar size with increase in temperature.