Chromatographic separation of thulium from erbium for neutron capture cross section measurements—Part II: Preparative scale separation
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- 作者：Balazs J. Bene ; Wayne A. Taylor…
- 关键词：171Tm ; Lanthanide separation ; Thulium ; Erbium ; Preparative HPLC ; Cation exchange chromatography
- 刊名：Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：311
- 期：1
- 页码：155-163
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- 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Nuclear Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; Diagnostic Radiology; Inorganic Chemistry;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1588-2780
- 卷排序：311
文摘
This paper discusses the development of a separation method for isolation of 171Tm from a half-gram irradiated erbium target in support of stockpile stewardship and astrophysics research. The developed procedure is based on cation exchange separation using alpha-hydroxyisobutyric acid (α-HIBA) as chelating agent. It is able to achieve either a decontamination factor of 1.4(4) × 105 with 68.9(3) % recovery or 95.4(3) % recovery with a decontamination factor of 5.82(7) × 103 for a mock 500-mg target containing 17.9 mg thulium in a single pass-through at room temperature.