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- From: tenney@med.unc.edu (Charles R. Tenney)
- Subject: Re: Cesium, of course.
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:06:03 GMT
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- In article <18k43tINNo73@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
- >Cesium's more interesting properties:
- > -4
- >% of earth's crust: 3.2 x 10
- >
- >Density: 1.873 g / cm^3
- >Melting Point: 28.5 C
- >Boiling Point: 705 C
- >Sublimation energy (@ 25 C): 78.78 kJ/mol
- >Ionization energies: (in eV)
- > 1st: 3.894
- > 2nd: 25.1
- > 3rd: 35
- >Atomic radius: 263 pm
- >Heat of hydration (from a gas): 264 kJ/mol
- >
- >Cesium can be obtained by reduction of Cs CO with carbon or byh the
- > 2 3
- >thermal decomposition of cesium tartarate.
- >
- > Cs CO + 2C ---> 2Cs + 3CO
- > 2 3
- >Cesium is used in photoelectric cells, since the absorption of radiant
- >energy in the visible region of the spectrum can remove an electron
- >because of its low ionization energy. Cesium also serves as a
- >"getter" in vacuum tubes, removing the last traces of corrosive gases
- >in the tube when it is first put into use.
- >
-
- Cesium is also used in x-ray detectors, most notably in cesium iodide
- image intensifier tubes. You may, therefore, be interested in the fact
- that it has a k-alpha x-ray energy of 30.851 keV and a k-beta energy of 35.131
- keV (weighted averages). The k-fluorescent yield is 0.895, and the probability
- that any given k-fluorescent x-ray will be an alpha is 0.810. Flourescent
- x-rays are, of course, important to x-ray detection in their tendancy to
- carry energy away from the site of initial interaction, depositing it
- where it is not wanted, or perhaps losing it altogether if the fluorescent
- photon escapes the detector. You also may wish to peruse the following x-ray
- interaction cross-sections, given in barns per atom. Don't forget to
- multiply by the conversion factor 0.004531 if you want mass attenuation
- coefficients in cm**2/gm. Energies are given in keV. Note the change in
- photoelectric effect at the absorption edges, for which there are two
- lines of data at the same energy (just below and just above the edge).
-
- ENERGY PHOTOELECTRIC COHERENT INCOHERENT
-
- 1.0 2.05E+6 1.90E+3 1.34E+0
- 1.065 1.81E+6 1.89E+3 1.46E+0
- 1.065 1.92E+6 1.89E+3 1.46E+0
- 1.217 1.44E+6 1.85E+3 1.72E+0
- 1.217 1.50E+6 1.85E+3 1.72E+0
- 1.5 9.48E+5 1.79E+3 2.21E+0
- 2.0 4.78E+5 1.68E+3 3.11E+0
- 3.0 1.79E+5 1.46E+3 4.87E+0
- 4.0 8.59E+4 1.27E+3 6.50E+0
- 5.0 4.95E+4 1.11E+3 7.92E+0
- 5.012 4.92E+4 1.11E+3 7.93E+0
- 5.012 1.50E+5 1.11E+3 7.93E+0
- 5.360 1.24E+5 1.06E+3 8.38E+0
- 5.360 1.71E+5 1.06E+3 8.38E+0
- 5.713 1.45E+5 1.02E+3 8.81E+0
- 5.713 1.67E+5 1.02E+3 8.81E+0
- 6.0 1.47E+5 9.85E+2 9.15E+0
- 8.0 6.97E+4 7.84E+2 1.13E+1
- 10.0 3.86E+4 6.38E+2 1.31E+1
- 15.0 1.29E+4 4.19E+2 1.65E+1
- 20.0 5.84E+3 3.00E+2 1.89E+1
- 30.0 1.87E+3 1.72E+2 2.16E+1
- 35.985 1.14E+3 1.31E+2 2.26E+1
- 35.985 6.78E+3 1.31E+2 2.26E+1
- 40.0 5.13E+3 1.12E+2 2.31E+1
- 50.0 2.83E+3 7.89E+1 2.39E+1
- 60.0 1.73E+3 5.88E+1 2.43E+1
- 80.0 7.80E+2 3.57E+1 2.44E+1
- 100.0 4.16E+2 2.36E+1 2.41E+1
- 150.0 1.32E+2 1.11E+1 2.29E+1
- 200.0 5.81E+1 6.44E+0 2.14E+1
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- >
- >Back off, man. I'm a chemist.
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- Consider me backed off. I'm a medical physicist.
-
- >_________________________________________________________________________
- >Don't step on my blue suede .sig gezelter@lithium.cchem.berkeley.edu
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Charles R. Tenney tenney@med.unc.edu | What would the UNC school of
- | Medicine want with my opinions?
- "My karma ran over my dogma." | What would I want with theirs?
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