Wahib, Norfadira and Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin and Mohamad Ramli, Nur Aqilah and Sani, Siti Fairus Abdul and Bradley, D.A. (2019) Commercial kitchenware glass as a potential thermoluminescent media for retrospective dosimetry. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 148. pp. 218-224. ISSN 0969-8043, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.04.001.
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Study has been made of the thermoluminescence (TL) yield of various glass-based commercial kitchenware (Reko-China, Skoja-France, Godis-China, Glass Tum-Malaysia, Lodrat-France). Interest focuses on their potential for retrospective dosimetry. Use was made of a 60 Co gamma-ray irradiator, delivering doses in the range 2–10 Gy. Results for the various media show all the glassware brands to yield linearity of response against dose, with a lower limit of detection of ∼0.06 and ∼0.08 Gy for loose and compact powdered samples. Among all of the brands under study, the Lodrat glassware provides the greatest sensitivity, at 6.0 E+02 nC g −1 Gy −1 and 1.5E+03 nC g −1 Gy −1 for compact- and loose-powdered forms respectively. This is sufficiently sensitive to allow its use as a TL material for accident dosimetry (2 Gy being the threshold dose for the onset of a number of deterministic biological effects, including skin erythema and sterility). Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses have been conducted, showing the presence of a number of impurities (including C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Br). Fading of the irradiated glasses show the amount of better than 3% and 5% of the stored energy for both loose and compact powdered samples within 9 days post irradiation. As such, commercial kitchenware glass has the potential to act as relatively good TL material for gamma radiation dosimetry at accident levels. This is the first endeavour reporting the TL properties of low cost commercial kitchenware glasses for gamma-ray doses in the few Gy range, literature existing for doses from 8 Gy to 200 Gy. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Sunway University: grant no. INT-2018-SHMS-CRS-02 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Kitchenware glass; Thermoluminescence characterisation; EDX; Fading; Etrospective dosimetry |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Department of Physics |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2019 04:23 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2019 04:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/23191 |
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