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Comments on the paper 'Growth and investigation of novel nonlinear optical single crystal of urea potassium dichromate by solution growth technique for photonic application'
- Source :
- Journal of Optics. 51:767-771
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- The authors of the title paper (Journal of Optics 49:181–186, 2020) claim to have grown a so-called urea potassium dichromate (UPDC) by slow evaporation of an aqueous solution containing equimolar amounts of urea and potassium dichromate and characterized it based on a unit cell study. A critical analysis reveals that the claims in the title paper are erroneous. Hence, we reinvestigated the crystal growth reaction and determined the structure of the product crystal. Based on these studies, we prove that due to no chemical reaction between the reagents fractional crystallization of potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) occurs and not formation of any so-called UPDC crystal. Taking the title crystal as an example we show the importance of reporting single-crystal structure for new compound characterization.
- Subjects :
- Aqueous solution
Materials science
business.industry
Inorganic chemistry
Crystal growth
02 engineering and technology
Chemical reaction
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Crystal
chemistry.chemical_compound
020210 optoelectronics & photonics
Optics
chemistry
Reagent
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Fractional crystallization (chemistry)
business
Potassium dichromate
Single crystal
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09746900 and 09728821
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Optics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b5b613fee738d786998c0d4d08e27ab7