Lg. Gilinskaya et Ri. Mashkovtsev, BLUE AND GREEN CENTERS IN NATURAL APATITES BY ESR AND OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY DATA, Journal of structural chemistry, 36(1), 1995, pp. 76-86
Using ESR and optical spectroscopy we showed that the blue coloring is
imparted to natural apatites by SO3- radicals and the green coloring
is due to SiO3- radicals completed with rare earth ions, SiO3--(Ce3++K
). The role of U4+ and Th4+ isomorphous actinide ions in the process o
f color center 3 formation is investigated.