The effects of rare earth addition and hot extrusion process on the grain refinement of magnesium alloy were studied. The as-cast Mg-6Al-1Zn (AZ61) alloy had the average grain size of ~ 64 µm and its microstructure consisted of α-Mg and Mg17Al12 phase. By partial substitution of Al with Gd to reach Mg-4.8Gd-1.2Al-1Zn alloy, it was observed that the Mg17Al12 phase disappeared and two new interme...

different samples have been prepared from different products in chadormalu iron ore concentrator plant: low intensity magnetite separators concentrate (magnetite concentrate), reverse flotation tail (final hematite concentrate), flotation concentrate (apatite concentrate), final tail (l.i.m.s. tail + reverse flotation concentrate+ apatite flotation tail). the samples were used for rare earth el...

this work was aimed to evaluate and compare the performances of the solvents d2ehpa (di-(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid), cyanex 272 (bis (2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid), and a mixture system of d2ehpa and cyanex272 in the separation of some rare earth elements (rees) including lanthanum, gadolinium, neodymium, and dyspersym from a nitric acid solution. the results obtained showed that ...

the solvent extraction of rare earth metal ions from nitrate solutions by 5.11.17.23-tetra-tert-butyl-25,27-bis(diethylcarbamoylmethoxy)-26,28-dihydroxycalix[4]arene (l) in 1,2-dichloroethane has been investigated. the alalysis of the extraction equilibrium obtained from a mixture of la3+, eu3+, er3+ and y3+ revealed that the extracted species have a 1:1 metal/ligand ratio. the intra-group sepa...

the effect of rare earth (re) elements, including ce and la, on the sorption properties of zr-co getters was investigated in this work. the phase evolution, microstructural characteristics of getter powders were studied by means of x-ray diffraction method, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (eds). the nanostructured zr3co intermetallic compound has been...