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    <language>eng</language>
    
      <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
    
    <journalTitle>Material Science Research India</journalTitle>
    
      <issn>0973-3469</issn>
    
    
    <publicationDate>2008-03-02</publicationDate>
    

        <volume>5</volume>

        <issue>1</issue>

 

    <startPage>89</startPage>
    <endPage>94</endPage>

   
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    <publisherRecordId>1903</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Preparation of Pure Crystalline Indium and its Characterization</title>

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    <abstract language="eng"><p>In this study multi-pass zone refining technique was employed to purify indium metal from 3N+ to 5N6 purity level and the refined samples were characterized for their purity and crystalline quality. Major impurities that were targeted for reduction by multi-pass zone-refining include Al, As, Bi, Ca, Mg, Sb, Si, Sn, Ge, Pb, Ga, Cu, Fe, Zn and Ag. The samples were initially homogenized by following a three-cycle melting (heating) and solidification (cooling) scheme. A five pass pre-stage zone-refining experiment(s) of five hours duration on pre-homogenized samples were conducted employing Instrolec 200 zone-refiner. Parameters such as heater temperature, traverse speed, coolant flow and time were optimized. Indium samples obtained from the pre-stage zone-refining process were chemically washed, cleaned and then loaded in the Instrolac PTFE sample tube for final an eight-pass zone refining process. Starting and final stage zone-refined indium samples were characterized by ICP-OES, ICP-MS and XRD. It was found that, the total concentration of impurities reduced from 91.43 ppm to 14.465 ppm after 5 passes and to 4.02 ppm (5N6-99.9996% pure) after 8 passes and the results are discussed.</p></abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol5no1/preparation-of-pure-crystalline-indium-and-its-characterization/</fullTextUrl>




      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>Zone-refining</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> High pure indium</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> purity analysis</keyword>
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