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A method for the purification of bulk amount of thorium from its daughter products

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A method has been developed to purify bulk amounts of natural thorium from its daughter products. The method is based on anion exchange separation of Th from Pb, Bi, Tl, Ra using Dowex 1 X 8 anion exchange resin conditioned to 2M HCl. The method has several advantages over other methods, namely the decontamination is quite high, Th separation is quantitative and it is suitable for the purification of bulk amounts of Th in a reasonably short time.

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  1. Radiochemistry Laboratory, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Sector 1, Block AF, Bidhan Nagar, 700 064, Calcutta, (India)

    S. K. Saha & S. M. Sahakundu

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  1. S. K. Saha
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Saha, S.K., Sahakundu, S.M. A method for the purification of bulk amount of thorium from its daughter products. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 120, 401–405 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02037355

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