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THE USE OF PENETRATING RADIATIONS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF THE POROSITY OF REFRACTORY BRICK *
Author(s) -
Austin J. B.
Publication year - 1936
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1936.tb19791.x
Subject(s) - brick , porosity , radium , refractory (planetary science) , materials science , radiation , yield (engineering) , mineralogy , gamma ray , absorption (acoustics) , composite material , radiochemistry , optics , geology , chemistry , physics , nuclear physics
A bstract The possibility of using the absorption of X‐rays or γ‐rays in a refractory brick as a measure of porosity has been tested experimentally for both kinds of radiation. It is found that the method is entirely practical in either case and when the necessary apparatus is set up it should yield results, with much less effort, better than those now obtained by the displacement method. Gamma‐rays from radium appear to have some advantages over X‐rays.