Strontium uranium phosphate

Major constituents (greater than 5 mg/L) Minor constituents (O.Ol-lO.Omg/L) Selected trace constituents (less than 0.1 mg/L) Bicarbonate, calcium, carbonic acid, chloride, magnesium, silicon, sodium, sulfate Boron, carbonate, fluoride, iron, nitrate, potassium, strontium Aluminum, arsenic, barium, bromide, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, iodide, lead, Uthium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, phosphate, radium, selenium, silver, tin, titanium, uranium, vanadium, zinc, zirconium... 

For those interested in mineral matter in coal, an awareness that some partings may be of volcanic origin may be useful in explaining the distribution of some of these layers and the occurrences of some unusual components, such as strontium, phosphate, or uranium. Volcanic ash partings are likely to be more widespread and uniform in texture, composition and thickness than the more common partings of fluvial origin. They are also more likely to show marked differences from layer to layer, and to contain exotic mineral or chemical components. 

Elements like aluminium, barium, cadmium, lead, strontium, and traces of others exist in different forms in plastics additives, and may enter the body through food and water as well as through air breathed in. These elements do not serve any known purpose in the body, but they are still absorbed, and as a result, the average adult body can contain significant amounts of them. Some of these resemble human elements (e.g., strontium resembles calcium closely, and a lot of it is absorbed easily in bones, to the extent that approximately 320 mg can be found in the body of an average person, which is far more than many of the essential elements, while even gold and uranium can exist in quantities of 7 and 0.07 mg, respectively), and are retained and deposited preferentially either in the skeleton (e.g., uranium, binds specifically to the phosphate of the bones) or elsewhere for example in the liver, where liver proteins can trap and deposit some of these heavy metals, like cadmium. 

The selection of the extractant and the disperser solvent if used will depend on the radionuclide of interest. Thus, 4,4 -(5 )-bis(tert-butylcyclohexano)-18-crown-6 solution in 1-octanol has been used as extractant for the selective isolation of strontium [10], di-2-ethylhexylphosphoric acid (HDEHP) for yttrium extraction [11], tri-w-octylphosphine oxide and tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) were used as com-plexing ligands of uranium [17], TBP in dodecane has been applied to the extraction of uranium, thorium and plutonium [18,19], and a mixture of aliquat as extractant and 2-propanol as disperser solvent can be used to isolate technetium. 

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