Additive Coloration of Calcium Oxide

Abstract
Single crystals of CaO have been additively colored by heating them at 1700°C in calcium vapor at pressures from 0.33 to 40 Torr. An asymmetric optical absorption band which peaks at 3.1 eV is observed to grow in proportion to the increase in calcium-vapor density and is ascribed to the formation of F centers. A second band, which peaks at 3.6 eV and saturates with increasing calcium-vapor density, is ascribed to the formation of F centers.