Separation of cobalt and nickel
CA 1180903 A · Owner: Interox Chemicals Limited · Inventors: Mounsey, Diana M.; Mobbs, David B.
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Separation of Cobalt and Nickel The invention relates to the preferential precipitation of cobalt from aqueous acidic sulphate solutions of nickel and cobalt. The separation is carried out by introducing at least a stoichiometric amount of Caro's Acid containing no more than a small amount of hydrogen peroxide into the nickel/cobalt solution progressively over a period of at least an hour whilst maintaining the solution at a pH from 3.1 or 3.5 up to 4.7 by addition of an alkali metal hydroxide carbonate or bicarbonate, or at 4.3 to 4.7 with the corresponding ammonium compound, and, thereafter separating the precipitate from the aqueous cobalt depleted solution. In preferred features the …
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- Granted January 15, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 15, 2002.
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