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Retention of Th 234 on Some Metal Sulphides
Author(s) -
Gadia M. K.,
Rai R. S.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the chinese chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.329
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 2192-6549
pISSN - 0009-4536
DOI - 10.1002/jccs.197400024
Subject(s) - thorium , chemistry , tin , antimony , radiochemistry , metal , precipitation , absorption (acoustics) , nuclear chemistry , diffusion , inorganic chemistry , uranium , metallurgy , organic chemistry , materials science , physics , meteorology , acoustics , thermodynamics
About 99% of active thorium and almost entire inactive thorium is retained on precipitates of tin disulphide and antimony sulphide. The absorption of inactive thorium is slightly faster than active thorium. The retention of active thorium decreases in presence of inactive thorium. Analysis of retention data confirms the heterogeneous distribution of thorium over the precipitate of Sn(IV) and Sb(III) sulphides. Retention takes place by absorption when precipitate is less. In presence of greater amount of precipitate inhomogeneous distribution and diffusion of thorium ions takes place.