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Thermal, optical and passive radiation shielding efficiency of rice husk sourced glasses doped bismutite
https://doi.org/10.31248/AJPS2025.125 | Article Number: 0DBF5CBE2 | Vol.6 (4) - August 2025
Received Date: 24 May 2025 | Accepted Date: 27 July 2025 | Published Date: 30 August 2025
Authors: Jibrin Suleiman Yaro* , Jamilu Ari Labaran , Abdullahi Lawal , Abdullahi Ibrahim Ode , Iwa Samiya James and Adamu Saidu
Keywords: rice husk, Bismutite, Radiation shielding parameters, optical, TGA, X-ray radiation.
Common shielding materials against highly penetrating radiations like X-rays and gamma photons are concrete and aggregates made of lead. On the other hand, concrete ages and turns opaque, and lead is costly and chemically dangerous. These and other factors have fuelled the ongoing quest for substitute radiation shielding materials. Mineral ores containing Rice Husk and bismuth ore have been generated by small-scale mining in Nigeria. Analysis of the ore found that 85.20% of the bismutite (Bi2O2CO3) and Rice Husk constituted 97.25% of silica. The new glass series was made from silica derived from Rice Husk and bismutite as dopants to alter the desired properties of the glass, with the empirical chemical formula [(SiO2)20(H2BO3)55(Na2CO3)25]100-x(Bismutite)x, where . The glass series was created via the melt quenching process. Measurements of Physical, optical characteristics, X-ray attenuation, and thermal analysis of the glass systems were used to characterise the new glass. The glass system has refractive index values of 2.35-2.46. The produced glass was thermally stable. All glass samples were subjected to the X-Ray attenuation experiment of radiation shielding parameters, specifically the linear attenuation coefficient (LAC), mass attenuation coefficient (MAC), half value layer (HVL), and tenth value layer (TVL), at photon energies ranging from 40 to 80 kVp. The results indicate that the LAC and MAC of the glass samples decrease and increase as the photon energies increase from 40 to 80kVp, while TVL and HVL increase and decrease as the photon energy increases (tube voltage).
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