Besides various materials, glass becomes very important, as it has started to be used in many applications. Thus, their radiation shielding properties should be determined for safely using in critical applications such as for medical purposes With this in mind, the present study investigated the radiation shielding parameters of waste soda‐lime (SLS) containing varying amounts of lanthanum oxide (La₂O₃). The La₂O₃ content was added as 0.005, 0.05 and 0.5 in wt% into waste SLS glass, and four different glass specimens (La‐0, La‐0.005, La‐0.05, and La‐0.5) were produced via conventional melting technique. The linear attenuation coefficient for glass samples was measured in the photon energies of 511,835 and 1,275 keV and the results were compared with the calculation done by XCOM. One can conclude that adding lanthanum oxide to waste glass is an effective way to improve radiation shielding properties of glass. That is, the sample of La‐0.5 could provide a higher linear attenuation coefficient while lower half‐value thicknesses. Further, the findings obtained both in calculation and experimental showed a good agreement for all types of glass and also for all energies.

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氧化镧废碱玻璃的X射线屏蔽参数

除各种材料外，玻璃已变得非常重要，因为它已开始在许多应用中使用。因此，应确定它们的辐射屏蔽性能，以便在医疗等关键应用中安全使用。考虑到这一点，本研究调查了含有不同量的氧化镧（La ₂）的废碱石灰（SLS）的辐射屏蔽参数。O ₃）。La ₂ O ₃废SLS玻璃中的含量分别为0.005、0.05和0.5 wt％（重量％），并通过常规熔融技术生产了四个不同的玻璃样品（La-0，La-0.005，La-0.05和La-0.5）。在511,835和1,275 keV的光子能量下测量了玻璃样品的线性衰减系数，并将结果与​​XCOM的计算结果进行了比较。可以得出结论，将氧化镧添加到废玻璃中是改善玻璃的辐射屏蔽性能的有效方法。也就是说，La‐0.5的样本可以提供较高的线性衰减系数，而半值厚度较低。此外，在计算和实验中获得的结果表明，所有类型的玻璃以及所有能量均具有良好的一致性。