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Transition-Metal and Lanthanide Ion Colors

Pigments, minerals, gemstones, glasses, and many related materials are colored by impurity defects that absorb some of the incident white light, leaving a depleted spec-hum to color the solid. Colors in these materials are thus characterized by the absorption spectrum of the solid. Common inorganic colorants are the transition-metal and lanthanide metal ions. The colors ate characteristic of the ions themselves and are due [Pg.417]

The lanthanides have electrons in partly filled 4/orbitals. Many lanthanides show colors due to electron transitions involving the 4/orbitals. However, there is a considerable difference between the lanthanides and the 3d transition-metal ions. The 4/ electrons in the lanthanides are well shielded beneath an outer electron configuration, (5.v2 5p6 6s2) and are little influenced by the crystal surroundings. Hence the important optical and magnetic properties attributed to the 4/ electrons on any particular lanthanide ion are rather unvarying and do not depend significantly upon the host structure. Moreover, the energy levels are sharper than those of transition-metal ions and the spectra resemble those of free ions. [Pg.418]


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