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THE optical and decomposition properties of inorganic compounds can very often be changed by the introduction of small amounts of foreign cations or anions. For inorganic azides which decompose rapidly on heating, the usual method of incorporating impurities, which involves recrystallization from the melt, cannot be used. Gray and Waddington1 have reported on the properties of silver azide (AgN3) containing traces of the cyanamide ion, and this communication is concerned with the method and effect of introducing metal impurities such as cadmium into crystals of silver azide.
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Gray, P., and Waddington, T. C., Chem. and Indust., 1255 (1955).
Evans, B. L., and Yoffe, A. D., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 238, 568 (1957).
cf. McLaren, A. C., Proc. Phys. Soc., B, 70, 147 (1957).
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YOFFE, A., EVANS, B. & DEB, S. Foreign Cations in Silver Azide. Nature 180, 294–295 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180294a0
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