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Highly purified cobalt and zinc phthalocyanines were reactor irradiated and used in studies of the direct liquid-solid extraction procedure for obtaining high specific activity radionuclies. Hot dilute aqueous acid solutions, such as 0.1M HClO4, were found to give useful yields />50%/ at moderate enrichments from α-MPc targets. Dilute acid does not extract useful quantities of radionuclides from the irradiated β-MPc targets examined.
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Jardim, I.C.S.F., Collins, K.E. & Collins, C.H. Liquid-solid extraction of high specific activity radionuclides from reactor irradiated metal phthalocyanines. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 106, 327–332 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02163665
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