Lanthanum, separation of mixtures

Praseodymium, separation of mixtures with lanthanum from monazite, as magnesium nitrate double salt, 2 56, 67 Praseodymium (III) nitrate, analysis of anhydrous, 5 41 Praseodymium (III) oxide, for synthesis of nitrate, 5 39w. Precipitates, apparatus for removing liquid from, 8 16 Purpureochromic chloride, 2 196 6 138... 

Ura, P., Prakom, R., Weerawat, P. (2005). Purely extraction and separation of mixture of Cerium(lV) and Lanthanum(lll) via hoUow fiber supported liquid membrane. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 11 926-931. 

Yttrium and lanthanum are both obtained from lanthanide minerals and the method of extraction depends on the particular mineral involved. Digestions with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, or caustic soda are all used to extract the mixture of metal salts. Prior to the Second World War the separation of these mixtures was effected by fractional crystallizations, sometimes numbered in their thousands. However, during the period 1940-45 the main interest in separating these elements was in order to purify and characterize them more fully. The realization that they are also major constituents of the products of nuclear fission effected a dramatic sharpening of interest in the USA. As a result, ion-exchange techniques were developed and, together with selective complexation and solvent extraction, these have now completely supplanted the older methods of separation (p. 1228). In cases where the free metals are required, reduction of the trifluorides with metallic calcium can be used. 

The separation of rare earth oxides at 2500° C in a Solar furnace has been attempted [48], and Ce4+-oxide was obtained in a pure state from its mixture with lanthanum oxide. 

Cement, laboratory, 1 189 Cerite, extraction of, 2 44 Cerium, phosphor containing strontium sulfide and, 3 23 separation of, from rare earth mixtures, 2 43, 47, 48 test for, 2 50 Cerium amalgam, 1 15 Cerium-group earths, separation of, from yttrium earths by doublesulfate method, 2 44, 46 Cerium (III) magnesium nitrate, 2Ce(N03)s-3Mg(N03)2-24H,0, separation of praseodymium from lanthanum by, 2 57 Cerium(III) nitrate, 2 51 Cerium (IV) nitrate, basic, 2 49 Cesium, cesium azide for preparation of, 1 79... 

Casto et al. (CIO) described the use of a pilot plant scale multistage, box-type mixer-settler extractor in separating lanthanum from a mixture... 

Both yttria and ceria proved to be complex mixtures of oxides, and the separation of individual compounds from them proceeded in fits and starts throughout the nineteenth century. By 1907 yttria and ceria had yielded the oxides of yttrium, scandium, lanthanum and thirteen of the following fourteen elements. 

Blanchard et al. (1999) and Blanchard Brennecke (2001) extracted aromatic and aliphatic compounds into a CO2 phase from IL [bmim][PF6]. Examples include separation of naphthalene from the [bmim] [PFg] [Blanchard Brennecke, 2001] and methanol [bmim][PF6] using pressurized CO2 [ Scurto et al, 2002]. A two-step extraction system (water/RTIL/CO2) for trivalent lanthanum and europium was reported by Mekki et al. (2006) where the metal ions were extracted from the aqueous phase into SCCO2 via a RTIL/fluorinated P-diketonate mixture with high extraction efficiencies. 

Reference has been made already to the existence of a set of inner transition elements, following lanthanum, in which the quantum level being filled is neither the outer quantum level nor the penultimate level, but the next inner. These elements, together with yttrium (a transition metal), were called the rare earths , since they occurred in uncommon mixtures of what were believed to be earths or oxides. With the recognition of their special structure, the elements from lanthanum to lutetium were re-named the lanthanons or lanthanides. They resemble one another very closely, so much so that their separation presented a major problem, since all their compounds are very much alike. They exhibit oxidation state -i-3 and show in this state predominantly ionic characteristics—the ions. 

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. 

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