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Separation of lead-203 from cyclotron-bombarded thallium targets by ion-exchange chromatography
T N van der Walt1, F W Strelow, F J Haasbroek
1National Chemical Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, Republic of South Africa.
Abstract:
A simple method is presented for the separation of lead-203 from copper-backed thallium cyclotron targets. The procedure involves cation-exchange chromatography in hydrochloric acid and hydrochloric acid-acetone mixtures. Further purification involves anion-exchange chromatography in nitric acid-hydrobromic acid mixtures. A cation-exchange column containing 3.0 g of resin can handle as much as 15 g of thallium and 160 mg of copper. An anion-exchange column containing 3.0 g of resin can separate lead from up to 200 mg of thallium and 10 mg of copper. Separations are extremely sharp and less than 0.1 mug of thallium and less than 0.1 mug of copper remain in the lead-203 fraction.
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