Cerium ionic crystal radius

Separation Processes. The product of ore digestion contains the rare earths in the same ratio as that in which they were originally present in the ore, with few exceptions, because of the similarity in chemical properties. The various processes for separating individual rare earth from naturally occurring rare-earth mixtures essentially utilize small differences in acidity resulting from the decrease in ionic radius from lanthanum to lutetium. The acidity differences influence the solubiUties of salts, the hydrolysis of cations, and the formation of complex species so as to allow separation by fractional crystallization, fractional precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction. In addition, the existence of tetravalent and divalent species for cerium and europium, respectively, is useful because the chemical behavior of these ions is markedly different from that of the trivalent species. 

Cerium oxide, ceria, has a fluorite structure and shows oxide anion conducting behavior differ from other rare earth oxides. However, the O ionic conductivity of pure ceria is low because of a lack of oxide anion vacancies. For ion conduction, especially for anion, it is important to have such an enough vacancy in the crystal lattice for ion conduction. Therefore, the substitution of tetravalent Ce" by a lower valent cation is applied in order to introduce the anion vacancies. For the dopant cation, divalent alkaline earth metal ions and some rare earth ions which stably hold trivalent state are usually selected. Figure 9-28 shows the dopant ionic radius dependencies of the oxide ionic conductivity for the doped ceria at 800°C. In the case of rare earth doped Ce02, the highest O ion conductivity was obtained for... 

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