Study of thermoluminescence response of purple to violet amethyst quartz from Balikesir, Turkey

TL Glow Curve and Kinetic Parameters of Amethyst Exposed to High Dose of Gamma Radiation

“…In the powdered amethyst from Turkey (grains size 90x 140 μm), the main peak at 270 °C decay 14% after 7 days of stored at room temperature of 25°C (298 K) [14]. After that, no significant fading effect was observed around one month [14].…”

“…According to other authors, the fading observed after about one month of storage does not prevent the use of the amethyst for dosimetric applications [14]. In addition, the amethyst has the advantage that it can be reused without any substantial loss in sensitivity and various publications suggest the feasibility of utilizing the luminescence properties of amethyst for dosimetry purposes in high doses [14,17,18].…”

“…Natural amethyst is a purple variety of -quartz (SiO2) and has received considerable attention from the point of view of technological applications with low and high dose radiation [13,14,17,18]. Thus, these studies have published the thermoluminescence analysis, as well as suitability of amethyst as dosimeter.…”

Thermoluminescence dosimetric and kinetic characterization of Pakistani fluorite after β irradiation

“…Several minerals have been reported as TL dosimetric material due to their unique TL properties which ultimately depend on the geological processes during formation times [7,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Fluorite (natural CaF2) is only one of them having a Face-Centred Cubic (FCC) structure and is nonhygroscopic in nature.…”