| Abstract: | Protactinium-233, separated from the irradiated thorium, was used as a tracer for the extraction study with thenoyItrifluoroacetone. From the results obtained by the variation of acidities of HCl with the constant concentration of TTA in benzene, a slope of ?2 was obtained by plotting the distribution coefficients against acidities. With a definite acid concentration of HCl in the aquous solution and by the variation of TTA concentration, a slope of 4 was obtained by plotting the distribution coefficients against the concentration of β-diketone. With these results, species extracted by the organic layer was assumed to be PaTTA]2HTTA]2. If the composition of the organic layer was changed by the addition of the following solvents into the TTA in benzene solution, the order of the extraction was found as follows: n-amyl alcohol > cyclohexane > chloroform > n-hexane > carbon tetrachloride > benzene > nitrobenzene > hexone > cyclohexanone > n-butyl alcohol. |
