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CHEM01200604004 Shri Sanyasinaidu Boddu - Homi Bhabha ...

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CHAPTER 6: Tungstates [MWO 4 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba)]<br />

6.1. Introduction: The tungstate materials have attracted much attention over the past two<br />

decades due to their important properties and applications in photoluminescence, microwave<br />

devices, optical fibers, scintillator materials, humidity sensors and catalysis [266-270]. They<br />

are expressed by the general formula of MWO 4 and can exist in two different crystalline<br />

modifications depending on the size of cations [271, 272]. Tungstates of relatively larger<br />

bivalent cations (ionic radius >0.99 Å) such as Ca, Ba, Pb and Sr exist in the scheelite<br />

structure, where the tungsten atom adopts tetrahedral coordination. Unlike this tungstates of<br />

smaller bivalent cations (ionic radius

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