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Sorption of124Sb(III) from benzene, toluene, o-xylene and nitrobenzene on treated fly ash, pyrolysis residue and bentonite clay was studied at room temperature using the batch method. In comparison to a former study for the sorption of124Sb(V), the results revealed relatively higher sorption of the trivalent state than the pentavalent one. According to the type of the nonpolar solvent used, the order of uptake of the radioactive isotopes was often o-xylene≥toluene>benzene. The sorption tendency of the sorbents used towards the radionuclides was: bentonite≥pyrolysis residue>treated fly ash. Sorption from an aqueous medium on the same sorbents has also been investigated for124Sb(III) compared to124Sb(V),152Eu(III) and their mixtures. The obtained results showed that the order of uptake of the different radionuclides was: Eu(III)>>Sb(III)>Sb(V)>mixture. The investigation was extended to the desorption studies of these radionuclides in the acidic and the neutral media from the dried radioactivity loaded sorbents.
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Abdel Raouf, M.W., Farah, K., Nofal, M. et al. Studies on sorption of antimony and europium from liquid organic and aqueous radioactive wastes on different sorbents. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 221, 153–159 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02035258
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