Method and apparatus for separating isotopes
US4000420A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 11, 1974 |
| Grant date | Dec 28, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 11, 1994 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB01D59/34
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Isotope separation is achieved between species A and B having an absorption resonance separated by an isotopic shift by selectively exciting a portion of species A using a tunable photon source of narrow emission line with and subsequently causing collisions with an optically excited third species to selectively ionize the excited portion of species A. When ionized, species A is easily separated by any technique, using its ionized condition to distinguish it from species B.
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