Reductive precipitation of elemental selenium from selenious acidic solutions using sodium dithionite

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 10240-10246

  Geoffroy, Nicolas ^a   Demopoulos, George P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SOLUTIONS; ACIDIC SULFATE SOLUTIONS; AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; DITHIONITE; ELEMENTAL SELENIUM; INITIAL PH VALUE; REACTION PRODUCTS; REDUCTIVE PRECIPITATION; SELENIOUS ACID; SIDE REACTIONS; SODIUM DITHIONITE;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; SULFUR; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SELENIUM;

EID: 73249146224     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9008502     Document Type: Article

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