Phosphor green

Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, 1623-1688. Scientific authority at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg. A pamphlet which he had printed at Berlin in 1676 is the earliest publication concerning elementary phosphorus and also contains descriptions of the previously known phosphors Bologna stone, Baldwin s phosphor, and emerald phosphor (green fluorspar). See also ref. (113). 

Sodium terbium borate is used in solid-state devices. The oxide has potential application as an activator for green phosphors used in color TV tubes. It can be used with Zr02 as a crystal stabilizer of fuel cells which operate at elevated temperature. Few other uses have been found. 

Eluorescent lamps for showing plants use a blue-white phosphor blended with a deep red-emitting phosphor. This more closely corresponds to the action spectmm for plant growth because there is Htfle green in the spectmm, African violets, for example, have leaves which appear more purple in color. The deep red emitter which is commonly used is magnesium fluorogermanate activated by Mn. ... 

In colored cathode ray tubes (CRTs), such as those used in televisions and computer terminals, three electron gun beams are focused on three different sets of phosphor dots on the front face of the tube. The dots are produced by using a compHcated photoHthography process. The phosphor dots are produced by settling the three different phosphors, each of which emits one of the primary saturated colors, red, green, or blue. Each phosphor is deposited separately and the three dots in each set are closely spaced so that the three primary colors are not resolved at normal viewing distances. Instead the viewer has the impression that there is only one color, the color achieved when the three primary colors are added together. 

Nickel Phosphate. Tri nickel orthophosphate [14396-43-17, Ni2(P0 2 7H20, exists as apple-green plates which decompose upon heating. It is prepared by the reaction of nickel carbonate and hot dilute phosphoric acid. Nickel phosphate is an additive to control the crystal size of ziac phosphate ia coaversioa coatiags which are appHed to steel prior to its being paiated (see Metal surface treatments). 

The precise choice of compound for the phosphor depends on a complex interplay of symmetry, interatomic spacing, stabiUty, etc in the crystal stmcture. The initial green emitting phosphor was the aluminate CeQ gyTbQ 23MgAl22022- More recently the choice has been a (LaQ 4CeQ 45TbQ 25)P04 compound and in addition a borate, (Ce,Gd,Tb)MgB 02Q, is also now used. 

Brilliant green neutral esters of phosphoric acid [125], carbamate herbicides [34]... 

The compound MgGa204, when activated by divalent impurities such as Mn +, is used in ultraviolet-activated powders as a brilliant green phosphor. Another very important application is to improve the sensitivity of various bands used in the spectroscopic analysis of uranium. Minor uses are as high-temperature liquid seals, manometric fluids and heat-transfer media, and for low-temperature solders. 

For the primary stage (phosphoric) V) acid as a monoprotic acid), methyl orange, bromocresol green, or Congo red may be used as indicators. The secondary stage of phosphoric) V) acid is very weak (see acid Ka = 1 x 10 7 in Fig. 10.4) and the only suitable simple indicator is thymolphthalein (see Section 10.14) with phenolphthalein the error may be several per cent. A mixed indicator composed of phenolphthalein (3 parts) and 1-naphtholphthalein (1 part) is very satisfactory for the determination of the end point of phosphoric(V) acid as a diprotic acid (see Section 10.9). The experimental neutralisation curve of 50 mL of 0.1M phosphoric(V) acid with 0.1M potassium hydroxide, determined by potentiometric titration, is shown in Fig. 10.6. 

The green colour due to the Cr3+ ions formed by the reduction of potassium dichromate makes it impossible to ascertain the end-point of a dichromate titration by simple visual inspection of the solution and so a redox indicator must be employed which gives a strong and unmistakable colour change this procedure has rendered obsolete the external indicator method which was formerly widely used. Suitable indicators for use with dichromate titrations include AT-phenylanthranilic acid (0.1 per cent solution in 0.005M NaOH) and sodium diphenylamine sulphonate (0.2 per cent aqueous solution) the latter must be used in presence of phosphoric) V) acid. 

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