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Metal extractions using water in carbon dioxide microemulsions

Authors :
Eva R. Birnbaum
Thomas M. McCleskey
D.L. Apodaca
Mary L. Campbell
M.Z. Yates
Source :
Chemical Communications. :25-26
Publication Year :
2001
Publisher :
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2001.

Abstract

Water in supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsions are examined as a new medium for the extraction of metal ions from contaminated surfaces, and are shown to extract >99% of the copper from a spiked filter paper with as little as a two-fold excess of surfactant.

Details

ISSN :
1364548X and 13597345
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Chemical Communications
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........f47049d1bac99f8e7db64384e9298b1a
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1039/b007331h