著者

中島 篤之助 高橋 正雄 河口 広司

出版者

公益社団法人 日本金属学会

雑誌

日本金属学会誌 (ISSN:00214876)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, no.11, pp.564-568, 1958

被引用文献数

1

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A method has been developed for the determination of rare earth elements including yttrium in uranium and its compounds. The greater portion of the uranium is separated from the rare earths by ether extraction. The rare earths are then precipitated as fluorides and subsequently purified as hydroxides. Lanthanum was used as the carrier. The efficiency of the above separation procedures was studied by means of the radioactive tracer Eu<SUP>152+154</SUP>. The final determination was carried out spectrographically by the copper-spark method. Five rare earth elements which showed extremely high neutron absorption were investigated, and their limits of detection (sensitivity) and recoveries from U<SUB>3</SUB>O<SUB>8</SUB> are reported.