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Reducing the radium radioactivity of aqueous effluents

US5006254A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 26, 1988
Grant dateApr 9, 1991
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Expiry dateApr 26, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P10/20
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Prohibited radioactivity is removed from contaminated aqueous effluents containing both nitrate and radium values, by liquid/liquid extracting such effluents with an organic phase comprising at least one halogenated, preferably fluorinated .beta.-diketone.

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