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The Use of Phosphate to Suppress Extraction of Niobium and Zirconium in a Modified Purex Process System (open access)

The Use of Phosphate to Suppress Extraction of Niobium and Zirconium in a Modified Purex Process System

When an aqueous solution containing dissolved irradiated uranium and nitric acid is equilibrated with 30% tributylphosphate solution in kerosene, the distribution co-efficients for sirconium and niobium are decreased by the addition of phosphoric acid to the system.
Date: June 16, 1953
Creator: Voiland, Eugene E.
System: The UNT Digital Library