LACAME 2006

Proceedings of the 10th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (LACAME 2006) held in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, 5-9 November 2006.

This volume demonstrates the way in which researchers, on a wide range of topics, many interdisciplinary, find the applications of the Mössbauer Effect an outstanding method whose results, sometimes unique, complements and improves the information obtained by other techniques to deepen the understanding of the matter under research. This volume comprises research papers recording original investigations on applications to diverse areas like archaeology, metallurgy, soil science, geology, industrial applications, new instrumentation, corrosion, and chemical applications. The papers present the latest scientific work of various regional investigators.

Improving detector signal processing with pulse height analysis in Mössbauer spectrometers.- Room temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy of ordinary chondrites from the Atacama Desert (Chile): constraining the weathering processes on desert meteorites.- The metallurgic furnaces at the Curamba Inca site (Peru): a study by Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffractometry.- Study of the structural modifications in activated clays by Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffractometry.- Magnetic and structural properties of mechanically alloyed Tb0.257?x Nd x Fe0.743 alloys, with x?=?0 and 0.257.- Mössbauer and magnetic studies of parent material from argentine pampas soils.- Multivariate analysis in provenance studies: Cerrillos obsidians case, Peru.- Synthesis and characterization of Fe6W6C by mechanical alloying.- Iron-containing pyrochlores: structural and magnetic characterization.- Study of the effect of Mn and Cu in FeMnAlCCu alloys by ICEMS and XRD.- Mössbauer investigation of maghemite-based glycolic acid nanocomposite.- Structural, Mössbauer and magnetic studies on Mn-substituted barium hexaferrites prepared by high energy ball milling.- Provenance study of obsidians from the archaeological site of La Maná (Ecuador) by electron spin resonance (ESR), SQUID magnetometry and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy.- Mössbauer investigation of magnetite nanoparticles incorporated in a mesoporous polymeric template.- Distribution of Fe-bearing compounds in an Ultisol as determined with selective chemical dissolution and Mössbauer spectroscopy.- Structural, magnetic and hyperfine characterization of zinc-substituted magnetites.- Magnetic investigation of iron-nitride-based magnetic fluid.