The
carbonate solution-dissolved rare earth showed some metastable
chemical characteristics. In this paper, the systematic investigation
of metastable dissolution regularity of Nd
3+
in Na
2
CO
3
solution was carried out. The results showed
that Nd
3+
has an instantaneous saturated solubility in
Na
2
CO
3
solution. When the amount of the dissolution
Nd
3+
did not reach the instantaneous saturated solubility,
the solution was in a stable-state period. Once the concentration
of Nd
3+
exceeded the instantaneous saturated solubility,
the solution was no longer in the metastable state and generated the
neodymium double salt of carbonate precipitates rapidly. The molecular
dynamics simulation of the solution in the metastable state was carried
out. In high concentration Na
2
CO
3
solution,
dissolved Nd
3+
had a coordination reaction with the CO
3
2–
. Also, there was a stronger interaction
between Na
+
and CO
3
2–
, which
caused the effective concentration of free CO
3
2–
which could react with Nd
3+
to become lower. Thus, these
reasons make the solution exhibit a metastable state. In that metastable
period, the dissolved Nd
3+
becomes steady and hard to generate
the neodymium double salt of carbonate precipitates.
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