Effect of PbO and B 2 O 3 on the Physical, Structural, and Radiation Shielding Properties of PbO-TeO 2 -MgO-Na 2 O-B 2 O 3 Glasses

Hanan Al-Ghamdi, M. I. Sayyed (), Ashok Kumar, Sabina Yasmin, B. O. Elbashir and Aljawhara H. Almuqrin
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Hanan Al-Ghamdi: Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
M. I. Sayyed: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University, Amman 11622, Jordan
Ashok Kumar: Department of Physics, University College Benra, Dhuri 148024, Punjab, India
Sabina Yasmin: Department of Physics, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram 4349, Bangladesh
B. O. Elbashir: Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi Arabia
Aljawhara H. Almuqrin: Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-10

Abstract: The process of melt quenching is utilized in the preparation of the PbO-TeO 2 -MgO-Na 2 O-B 2 O 3 glasses. The effect of PbO and B 2 O 3 on the physical, structural, and radiation shielding properties of present glasses have been presented in this study. As the lead concentration rises, both the density and the molecular weight rise, climbing from 3.283 to 3.923 g/cm 3 and from 105.638 to 128.675 g, respectively. The utilization of PbO as an alternative to B2O3 contributes to an increase in the overall number of at-oms, which in turn contributes to an increase in the molar volume. The XRD spectra show that the samples are amorphous. The different bending and stretching vibrations of the bonds present in the samples are shown by the FTIR spectra. The mass attenuation coefficient (MAC), linear attenuation coefficients (LAC), half-value layers (HVL), and effective atomic number (Zeff) were calculated using Phy-X software within the energy range 0.284–2.506 MeV. These obtained verdicts advocate that pre-pared Pb4 glass containing the highest concentration of PbO showed supreme shielding ability comparing the rest of the pre-pared glasses. According to these results, it can be said that PbO and B2O3 are the weighty additive composites for glass composition in the interest of radiation shielding.

Keywords: physical properties; structural properties; B 2 O 3 based glasses; PbO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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