Could I produce thorium chloride from lantern mantles by burning them to ashes, producing a mixture of oxides and ashes, then react the mixture with
hydrochloric acid to produce thorium chloride? I have about 200 mantles.The Austrian Scientist - 3-1-2018 at 03:30
No, since you will form ThO2 wich is very inert.
It´s only shlightly soluble in hot conc. H2SO4.
But you could reduce the ThO2 to Th metal and disolve it in HCl.
[Edited on 3-1-2018 by The Austrian Scientist]j_sum1 - 3-1-2018 at 04:42
But you could reduce the ThO2 to Th metal and disolve it in HCl.
Ahh. That is so much easier to type than to do.
I recommend reading the thread by Dan Vizine on the trials of thorium production.The Austrian Scientist - 3-1-2018 at 05:11
Can´t you just reduce it with lets say Mg powder like:
ThO2 + 2 Mg --> Th + 2 MgO ?
j_sum1 - 3-1-2018 at 05:16
Calcium. Inert atmosphere. High temp.
Read the thread.The Austrian Scientist - 3-1-2018 at 05:43
In the Holleman Wiberg(best book of inorganic chemistry in austria) is written that ThO2 would react with CCl4 or AlX3(X = Cl, Br or I) at higher
temperatures to ThX4Radium212 - 3-1-2018 at 10:58
Ok, thanks. Could I reduce it with lithium? I can't find a figure for how much ThO2 would be in a single mantle, but I guess around 1/8 gram.The Austrian Scientist - 3-1-2018 at 11:19
I think so.
Btw are your mantles used?
When not, couldnt you just soak them in water sinc they are made with Th(NO3)4 and get the salt?
[Edited on 3-1-2018 by The Austrian Scientist]Radium212 - 3-1-2018 at 11:53
Good point. I was going to burn them because I thought the oxide would be more useable.The Austrian Scientist - 3-1-2018 at 12:17
Also often they contain up to 1% Ce(NO3)4Radium212 - 3-1-2018 at 15:08
And in later ones possibly Y.Radium212 - 4-1-2018 at 09:24
Does anyone know if a carbonate leach (like is often used in uranium chemistry) could be used on the ThO2?The Austrian Scientist - 4-1-2018 at 09:56
