“…Number of methods have evolved for the determination of density and thermal expansion of solids at high temperature like Archimedean method, pycnometry, dilatometry, electromagnetic levitation, Method of maximal pressure in gas bubble, method of sessile drop, hydrostatic weighing, high temperature electrostatic levitation and gamma ray densitometry. Thermal expansion studies on alkali halides have been reported by several workers using X-ray diffraction [1][2][3], dilatometry [4,5], Fabrey-Perot interference method [6] and by other theoretical models [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Using γ-ray attenuation technique W. D. Drotning [15] measured thermal expansion of isotropic solid materials at high temperatures.…”