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precipitate at a constant pH and all the U02 produced from it will have
with acid.6 The usual method, as shown in Fig. 42, is to raise the pH to
2NH+or (NH,)2U20,or
2Na+ Na2U20,
such fine crystals that hot precipitation is preferred for ease of filtering;
air dilution, when ammonia is the reagent, also leads to a coarser pre-
When the yellow cake has been filtered off, additional acidification
Essentially the same procedure has been used before the advent of
The rejected uranium was, however, kept in tailing dumps in case a use
for uranium should materialize. Since then the procedure was patented
If yellow cake is roasted with salt, soda ash, and sawdust the products