Selenium and tellurium from copper refinery slimes and their changing applications

Proceedings - European Metallurgical Conference, EMC 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 571-585

  Ojebuoboh, Funsho ^a  

^a US Manufacturing LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anode slime; Se applications; Selenium; Te applications; Tellurium

Indexed keywords

COPPER INDUSTRY; COPPER REFINERY; DEMAND PATTERN;

BYPRODUCTS; COPPER; METAL RECOVERY; METALLURGY; PRECIOUS METALS; REFINING; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

SELENIUM;

EID: 69549151273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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