Using a high frequency cw mechanical resonance technique, the adiabatic elastic constants of single crystals of molybdenum and tungsten were measured between 77° and 500°K.
The elastic constants, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, and heat capacity are reported for a new class of laser hosts-the silicate oxyapatites. For Ca2La8(SiO4)6O2 the five independent elastic constants obtained from sound velocity measurements are C11=1.71, C12=0.62, C33=1.71, C44=0.52, and C13=0.39×1012 dyn/cm2, the thermal expansion coefficients at 300 K are 8.9×10−6 and 6.6×10−6 K−1 for the [101̄0] and [0001] directions, respectively, and the room-temperature conductivity is about 0.019 W cm−1 K−1. Sound velocity and thermal expansion data suggest a Debye temperature between 400 and 500 K.
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