A solid waste sample from acidic leaching of Alluoga sedimentary rocks, SW Sinai, Egypt, was processed for leaching and extraction of U and Cu respectively. This sample assayed 200 mg/kg U and 5 g/kg Cu. The present work aims to obtain solid waste free of U and Cu through selective alkaline leaching for uranium followed by environmentally safe glycine solution for copper leaching from the resulted waste. Under studied optimum conditions the leaching efficiency of U and Cu attained 93% and 96% respectively. Uranium was extracted using Amberlite IRA-400 Anion exchanger while Cu was selective extracted by LIX-973N diluted in kerosene. The relevant factors affecting the Cu extraction process were adequately studied and the number of stages for extraction and stripping were determined by the construction of McCabe–Thiele diagram.
This experiment was conducted to investigate the response of pepper seeds germination process and vegetative growth traits in seedlings stages as well as plant growth and productivity of open field to rare earth elements (REEs) i.e., cerium nitrate, neodymium nitrate, and praseodymium nitrate at concentrations of 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 ppm. Among the various REEs treatments, cerium nitrate at 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 ppm were more significantly effective than others in increasing most of the seedling parameters and 1.5 ppm cerium nitrate exhibited the maximum effect in germination characteristics with no significant differences among 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 ppm cerium nitrate as well as 1.5 ppm neodymium in all germination parameters in both seasons. The superiority of vegetative growth, fruit physical and total yield as well as fruit chemical content (ascorbic acid and carbohydrates) were obtained with neodymium followed by praseodymium foliar spray applications with compared to cerium or control treatments. The foliar spray treatment of 1.5 ppm neodymium nitrate exhibited an increment up to 54.1, 23.7, 29.5, and 33.1% over that observed in the control of average fruit weight, fruit diameter, fruit length, and total yield, respectively.
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