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Prediction of Glass Durability as a Function of Environmental Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

C. M. Jantzen
C. M. Jantzen*
Affiliation:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Savannah River Laboratory Aiken, SC 29808
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Abstract

A thermodynamic model of glass durability has been applied to natural, ancient, and nuclear waste glasses. The durabilities of over 150 different natural and man-made glasses, including actual ancient Roman and Islamic glasses (Jalame ca. 350 A. D., Nishapur 10-11th century A. D., and Gorgon 9-11th century A.D.), have been compared. Glass durability has been shown to be a function of the thermodynamic hydration free energy, δGhvd, which can be calculated from glass composition and solution pH. Using this approach the durability of the most durable nuclear waste glasses examined was ˜106 years by comparison with the durability of the natural basalts of ˜106 years. The least durable waste glass formulations were comparable in durability to the most durable simulated medieval window glasses of ˜103 years. In this manner, the durability of nuclear waste glasses has been interpolated to be ˜106 years and no less than 103 years.

Hydration thermodynamics have been shown to be applicable to the dissolution of glass in various natural environments. Groundwater-glass interactions relative to geologic disposal of nuclear waste, hydration rind dating of obsidians, and/or other archeological studies can be modeled, e.g. the relative durabilities of six simulated medieval window glasses have been correctly predicted for both laboratory (one month) and burial (5 year) experiments.

The effects of solution pH on glass dissolution has been determined experimentally for the 150 different glasses and can be predicted theoretically by hydration thermodynamics. The effects of solution redox (oxidation potential expressed as Eh) on dissolution of glass matrix elements such as Si and B have been shown to be minimal. The combined effects of solution pH and Eh have been described and unified by construction of thermodynamically calculated Pourbaix (pH-Eh) diagrams for glass dissolution. The Pourbaix diagrams have been quantified to describe glass dissolution as a function of environmental conditions by use of the data derived from hydration thermodynamics.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 125: Symposium N – Materials Stability and Environmental Degradation , 1988 , 143
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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