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This study investigates the properties of a ternary B₂O₃-TeO₂-BaO glass system, prepared through the melt-quenched technique. The chemical formula used is (50 - x/2)B₂O₃ + (50 - x/2)TeO₂ + xBaO, with x varying from 15 to 35 mol.%. The research explores how the gamma and neutron radiation shielding capabilities were analyzed. It finds that higher BaO content enhances gamma-ray shielding but does not significantly affect neutron shielding. The glass sample BTB35 emerged as the optimized candidate among the developed samples for gamma radiation shielding applications. Also, the obtained results for the MFP was compared to commercial shielding glasses, and other measurements on glasses show the superiority of BTB35 as commercial transparent radiation shielding glass.

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