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Uranium metal with a purity of about 99.9 pet was produced on a large scale by fused salt electrolysis with a material efficiency of about 90 pet The material efficiency depends mainly on bath composition, electrolysis temperature, electrode smothering, and elutriation during washing of the powder.
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TP 4604D. Manuscript, Mar. 5, 1956. New York Meeting, February 1956.
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Meister, G., Lilliendahl, W.C. Preparation of Uranium Metal by Fused Salt Electrolysis. JOM 9, 1445–1447 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377941
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