Friday, April 6, 2012

A Little Knowledge of Barium Fluoride

Barium Fluoride
Barium fluoride (BaF2) is a chemical compound of barium and fluorine. It is a solid which can be a transparent crystal. It occurs in nature as the mineral frankdicksonite. Barium Fluoride is most commonly used in spectroscopic components. And Barium Fluoride is often suitable for applications in the passive IR band (8 to 14 μm) and is often served as a viewport window for thermography. For an equivalent thickness the transmission extends approximately 1 micron further into the IR than Calcium Fluoride. The highest quality Barium Fluoride also has application as the fastest known scintillator material and is used in High Energy Physics Experiments.  Barium Fluoride is used as a molten bath component in aluminum raffination, as flux and preopacifying agent and as component of welding rod coatings and welding powders sa well.
Barium Fluoride is less resistant to attack by water than Calcium Fluoride. Pronounced water attack occurs at 500C, but the material can be used to 800C to dry. However, Barium Fluoride is the most resistant fluoride to high energy radiation but does not have VUV transmission of other types. The material is relatively hard but is very sensitive to thermal schock.

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