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    Bismuth germanium oxide or bismuth germanate is an inorganic chemical compound of bismuth, germanium and oxygen. Most commonly the term refers to the...
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    germanium (zirconogermanates) are all known. Bismuth germanate (bismuth germanium oxide, BGO) Sodium germanate Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry IUPAC...
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    in a highly alkaline solution. Bismuth germanate is a scintillator, widely used in X-ray and gamma ray detectors. Bismuth vanadate is an opaque yellow pigment...
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    is about 12 photons/keV. BaF 2 is not hygroscopic. BGO or bismuth germanate: bismuth germanate has a higher stopping power, but a lower optical yield than...
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    spectrophotometers. Bismuth germanate is a scintillator in X-ray and gamma ray detectors. Bismuth is used in a catalyst for making acrylic fibers. Bismuth metal on...
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    germanates) exhibits the unusual property of having a high refractive index for visible light, but transparency to infrared light. Bismuth germanate,...
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    holography or image processing applications. Bismuth germanate Sillénite Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bismuth titanate. Shen, Chuanying; Zhang, Huaijin;...
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    detector, and certain scintillating materials, such as sodium iodide and bismuth germanate, achieve high electron densities as a result of the high atomic numbers...
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    iodide (NaI(Tl))—often simplified to sodium iodide (NaI) detectors—and bismuth germanate (BGO). Because photomultipliers are also sensitive to ambient light...
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    Sillénite (category Bismuth minerals)
    structure is shared by several synthetic materials including bismuth titanate and bismuth germanate. These compounds have been extensively investigated for...
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    Detector (HXD) Uses Gadolinium Silicate crystal (GSO), Gd2SiO5(Ce) Uses Bismuth Germanate crystal (BGO), Bi4Ge3O12 X-ray Telescope (XRT) Hard X-ray Detector...
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    spectrometer needing to be shielded from noise generated by the craft. A bismuth germanate shield was used, although this proved only moderately effective. The...
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    (twelve sodium iodide crystals for the 8 keV to 1 MeV range and two bismuth germanate crystals with sensitivity from 150 keV to 30 MeV), and can detect...
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  • germanates) exhibits the unusual property of having a high refractive index for visible light, but transparency to infrared light. Bismuth germanate,...
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    Prospector. It consisted of a bismuth germanate crystal surrounded by a shield of borated plastic. Gamma rays striking the bismuth atoms produced a flash of...
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    detectors and their associated electronics. Each detector consisted of a bismuth germanate (BGO) crystal 78 mm in diameter by 120 mm thick, surrounded by a plastic...
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  • experiment in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. Rosebud uses a bismuth germanate (Bi4Ge3O12, "BGO") detector crystal. The CRESST collaboration is currently...
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    Baltimore(Ed. by Ter-Pogossian et al.). Cho, ZH. and Farukhi, MR., "Bismuth Germanate (BGO) as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras",...
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  • BGO can refer to: Bismuth germanate, a scintillating chemical compound BGO Records (Beat Goes On), a British record label Battlestar Galactica Online...
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    channels. Gamma-ray Spectrometer (GRS) consisted of two identical bismuth germanate oxide scintillators. It covered energy range 0.3 MeV–100 MeV, which...
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    aluminates, stannates, and bismuthates (in the case of aluminium, tin, and bismuth, respectively). They can also form Zintl phases (half-metallic compounds...
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  • scintillators are often used to reject charged particles, while thicker CsI, bismuth germanate ("BGO"), or other active shielding materials are used to detect and...
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    principle of ionization calorimetry: several layers of the scintillator bismuth germanate emit light as they are struck by particles, allowing to calculate...
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  • detect gamma rays. On its bottom half the detector is surrounded by a Bismuth germanate scintillator to shield it from atmospheric gamma rays. The telescope...
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  • suppression shields. Both TESSA2 and TESSA3 replaced the NaI crystals with bismuth germanate. TESSA 2 had 6 germanium detectors, but TESSA 3 was upgraded to 16...
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    another technology demonstration program to test the suitability of bismuth germanate in gamma-ray detectors, the suitability of n-type, high-purity germanium...
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  • acid. Germanium also reacts with molten caustic soda to yield sodium germanate Na2GeO3 and hydrogen gas. It melts at 938 °C. Germanium is a semiconductor...
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    occur as native element minerals or alloys: Aluminium Antimony Arsenic Bismuth Cadmium Carbon Chromium Cobalt Copper Gold Indium Iridium Iron Lead Manganese...
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  • germanate Na2[Ge(N3)6]. The presence of a weakly coordinating counterion such as tetraphenylarsonium enables the formation of low valent germanates from...
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    zinc, vanadium B usually represents semi-metal such as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, and rarely germanium, or metals like tin and rarely vanadium X is sulfur...
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