| Abstract: | A simple selective method is presented for the solvent extraction of yttrium from salicylate media by using triphenylphosphine
oxide. Yttrium is extracted quantitatively from 0.05 mol/l sodium salicylate solution at pH 4.5–5.0 using 1.8% triphenylphosphine
oxide dissolved in toluene as an extractant and can be subsequently stripped using water and determined spectrophotometrically
with Thoron-I. This precise and accurate method permits the separation of Y from Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Zr, Hf, Th and U from
binary mixtures and multi-component systems.
Received: 17 January 1995 / Accepted: 12 May 1995 |
