Recuperação de 241Am de para-raios e detectores de fumaça


Autoria(s): Clain,Almir Faria; Aquino,Josilto Oliveira de; Domingues,Maria de Lourdes Freitas
Data(s)

01/09/1999

Resumo

A method is described for recovering and purifying 241Am from lightning-conductors and smoke detectors. The method is based on the precipitation of silver, as AgCl, the main impurity, and extraction of americium with TBP. Further purification with ion-exchange resin is also used. The results have shown that by this method the americium is obtained with high purity.

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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40421999000500010

Idioma(s)

pt

Publicador

Sociedade Brasileira de Química

Fonte

Química Nova v.22 n.5 1999

Palavras-Chave #americium recovery #americium purification #smoke detectors #lightning-conductors
Tipo

journal article