A novel aluminum vanadate ion exchanger and its use for separation of (137m)Ba, (115m)In and (110m)Ag from (137)Cs, (115)Cd and (198)Au, respectively.
A newly designed inorganic ion exchanger, based on aluminum vanadate, has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopic tools and powdered X-ray diffraction. The insoluble poorly polycrystalline material is highly stable towards thermal and radiation doses and in various chemical environments. The data of exchange capacities of the solid material for the different alkali and alkaline metal ions determined by batch technique show that the compound can be employed as an ion exchanger. The successful radiochemical separations of the no carrier added daughter nuclides; (137m)Ba and (115m)In from their respective parents present in equilibrium mixtures have been carried out using this material. Elutions of (137m)Ba and (115m)In were performed using 0.0426molL(-1) ascorbic acid solution and 4.0molL(-1) HCl, respectively, after sorption of the equilibrated mixtures (137)Cs-(137m)Ba at 0.01molL(-1) HCl medium and (115)Cd-(115m)In at pH 7.0, respectively. In another column operation, it has been observed that the separation of gold and silver is possible with the help of the eluents, 0.01% alcoholic solution of Rhodamine-B for gold and 0.5% thiourea solution in 0.1molL(-1) HClO(4) for silver, respectively, after the sorption of no carrier added onto this material at pH 2.0, at a no carrier added level.
Dhara
Sanjoy
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Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
Sarkar
Sandipan
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Basu
Sukalyan
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Chattopadhyay
Pabitra
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