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Studies on the extraction behaviour of plutonium(IV) from mixed aqueous-organic media with sulphoxides

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Extraction behaviour of plutonium (IV) from nitric acid media by two long-chain aliphatic sulphoxides, namely, di-n-hexylsulphoxide and di-n-octylsulphoxide has been investigated in the presence of several water-miscible organic solvents to study their possible synergistic effect on metal ion extraction. Methanol, ethanol, n-and iso-propanol, dioxane, acetone as well as as acetonitrile were used as the organic component of the mixed (polar) phase. These additives affected the extraction to varying degrees. Thus, extractability of Pu increases 2–3 fold with increasing concentration (upto 20%) of acetonitrile, acetone, methanol and ethanol while it decreases with increasing concentration of n-and isopropanol. At high concentration of the former, synergism changes into antagonism. Possible reasons for such behaviour are briefly discussed. Among these organic additives, maximum enhancement in the extraction of Pu(IV) was observed in the presence of acetonitrile. The relative increase in extraction was found to be more at lower sulphoxide concentrations.

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Shukla, J.P., Subramanian, M.S. Studies on the extraction behaviour of plutonium(IV) from mixed aqueous-organic media with sulphoxides. J. Radioanal. Chem. 60, 403–410 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02518899

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