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Mechanical properties, strength physics and plasticity

Luminescence of quartz under the action of a shock wave

V. I. Vettegren, A. V. Voronin, V. S. Kuksenko, R. I. Mamalimov, I. P. Shcherbakov

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: Upon fracture of quartz under the action of a shock wave caused by an electric explosion, a plasma jet is formed. An analysis of the luminescence spectra shows that the jet consists of atoms and cations of the elements contained in quartz and impurities in it.

Received: 27.06.2013

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2014, 56:2, 317–320

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