In this work, thorium (IV) removal from aqueous solutions was investigated in batch systems of cationic and anionic resins of Amberlite IR-120 and IRA-400. In this way, the effects of pH, initial Th(IV) concentration and the amount of adsorbent were investigated. A Central Composite Design (CCD) under Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was employed to determine the optimized condition. The resu...

Extraction-separation of Eu(III) and Th(IV) ions from nitrate media into the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate by a phosphorylated salen extractant, bis(chlorophosphoryle)decahydro-2,4-di(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzo[d][1,3,6]oxadiazepine (DPO), is investigated. It is found that Eu(III) ions are extracted via a solvation mechanism, and the extraction of Th(IV) i...

Mesoporous TiO2-SiO2 nanocomposite (TS) was synthesized via sol-gel method and Amino-functionalized using 3-(aminopropyl) triethoxysilane. prepared amino-functionalized TiO2-SiO2 (NH2TS) was evaluated for eliminating radioactive Th(IV) ion in comparison with (TS). The prepared nanocomposites were characterized using FT-IR,  XRD, DSC-TGA...

The hydration structure of two actinoid ions of different charge, Cm(III) and Th(IV), was investigated. Density Functional Theory, DFT-based molecular dynamics and the single sweep method were used to obtain free energy landscapes of ion-water coordination. Free energy curves as a function of the ion-water coordination number were obtained for both ions. The number of water molecules in the fir...

Liquid–liquid extraction and liquid membrane transport behavior of tetravalent actinide ions viz. Th(IV), Np(IV), Pu(IV) were investigated for the first time using a diglycolamide (DGA) based dendrimer with tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TREN) scaffold as organic extractant. The generation 1 six DGA pendent moieties (termed TREN-G1-DenDGA) extracted Np(IV) more effectively than other two ions, trend ...

The sorption of thorium and uranium ions by functionalized SBA–15 mesoporous silica materials with Schiff base ligating groups N–propylsalicylaldimine (SBA/SA) and ethylenediaminepropylesalicylaldimine (SBA/EnSA) from aqueous solution was investigated in fixed-bed column method. The TEMPeffect of pH, sample solution volume, and the column design parameters such as sample and eluent flow rat...

Resin blocks conta in ing s imula ted roo t canal spaces were c o m p a r e d with ext rac ted tee th as mode ls for measu r ing the eff ic iency of endodon t i c d e b r i d e m e n t with hand ins t rumenta t ion , u l t rasonica t ion , or a c o m b i n a t i o n of bo th techniques . Canal spaces were filled with r ad io i so tope l aden gelatin, and the loss of radioact iv i ty was measu r...

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This paper describes a system that learns the ru les o f pronunciat ion i nduc t i ve l y . I t begins wi th a set of 26 ru les for s i n g l e l e t t e r pronunc ia t ion. Ind iv idua l words are presented to i t , and the system uses i t s ru le set to hypothesise a pronunc ia t ion . This is compared wi th a d ic t ionary pronunciat ion, and if any part of the pronunciat ion is incor rec t ...

An extraction chromatography (XC) material containing N,N,N’,N’-tetra-n-butyl diglycolamide (TBDGA) and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulphonyl) imide (C4mim?NTf2), a room temperature ionic liquid, was used for the uptake of tetravalent actinide ions Th(IV), Np(IV), Pu(IV) from nitric acid feed solutions. The metal followed trend: Th(IV) < Np(IV) Pu(IV), which is same as that ...