Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues
Abstract
Mercury can be recovered from nitric acid-containing fluids by reacting the fluid with aluminum metal to produce mercury metal, and then quenching the reactivity of the nitric acid prior to nitration of the mercury metal.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1176608
- Patent Number(s):
- H000715
- Assignee:
- United States Of America, Department Of Energy
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Greenhalgh, Wilbur O. Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues. United States: N. p., 1989.
Web.
Greenhalgh, Wilbur O. Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues. United States.
Greenhalgh, Wilbur O. Tue .
"Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1176608.
@article{osti_1176608,
title = {Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues},
author = {Greenhalgh, Wilbur O.},
abstractNote = {Mercury can be recovered from nitric acid-containing fluids by reacting the fluid with aluminum metal to produce mercury metal, and then quenching the reactivity of the nitric acid prior to nitration of the mercury metal.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1989},
month = {12}
}
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