Calculation of oxygen distribution coefficients of RF3 (R = La, Gd) fluorides with the tysonite structure during their crystallization from a melt

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Using the method of modified cryoscopy, the thermodynamic distribution coefficients of oxygen k0 in LaF3 and α-GdF3 with a tysonite structure (sp. gr. )were calculated from the fusibility diagrams of condensed systems RF3–R2O3 (R = La, Gd). The calculated coefficients k0 are 1.02 and 1.12 for lanthanum and gadolinium trifluorides, respectively. The values of the coefficients k0 satisfy the condition k0 > 1, which confirms the formation of maxima in the fusibility curves of tysonite solid solutions tys- RF3–2xOx. For LaF3, the proximity of the distribution coefficient to k0 = 1 corresponds to an almost uniform distribution of oxygen in the volume of the crystallized fluoride melt. Knowledge of oxygen distribution coefficients during crystallization from a melt is important for choosing a strategy for crystallophysical purification of trifluorides RF3 from oxygen impurities and obtaining oxofluorides tys-RF3–2xOx with a given impurity distribution.

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N. I. Sorokin

Kurchatov Crystallography and Photonics Complex, National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”

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