Nb5+-V02+ can be effected simply by taking 0.1 M HNO3 as the developer, in only 30 minutes. This developer is also useful for separating Ba2+ from 38 metal ions. Some interesting aspects of aqueous nitric acid systems are summarized in Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 shows the dependence of Ri on pH of the system for the alkali metals.As expected the Ri increases with pH indicating an increase in the exchange process at high pH. However, K+ shows an irregular behavior, which may probably be due to the incorporation of K+ ions in the matrix during the preparation of papers, when they were dipped in KSb(OH)6 solution. To understand the exchange process, ARf (= Rf in 4M HNO3 -Rf in 10-5 HNO3) was calculated for all the metal ions and the average ARf was obtained for monovalent and multivalent metal ions. A plot between average ARf and the charge of the metal ion (Figure 2) shows that as the charge increases, the difference in the Rf values also increases till charge = 3+. ARf suddenly falls with the further increase in charge probably because of the insoluble salt formation. Rm and log Rf values were also calculated for different metal ions. It was observed that these values are generally linearly dependent on pH of the solvent systems. Among alkali metals, K+ is an exception probably due to the reason explained earlier for Ri. There is no change in the Rm and log Rf values for W6+ and Mo6+ with the increase in pH. It is obvious because W6+ and Mo6+ are taken as anions which form insoluble stannic tungstate and molybdate, respectively.