Microstructure of plasma dissociated zircon

McPherson, R.; Shafer, B. V.

doi:10.1016/0047-7206(82)90018-8

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“…This material is essentially microcrystalline zirconia particles embedded in an amorphous silica matrix. The amorphous silica can be selectively removed using a concentrated NaOH solution, or completely dissolved using aqueous HF [Williamson and Evans, 1979;Wilks et al, 1972;McPherson and Shafer, 1985;Nel, 1999]: ZrO 2 + 6HF…”

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Microwave digestion of zircon with ammonium acid fluoride: Derivation of kinetic parameters from non-isothermal reaction data

Nhlabathi

Nel

Puts

et al. 2012

International Journal of Mineral Processing

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Zircon is notoriously inert. Aggressive processing methods such as alkaline fusion are conventionally used to extract zirconium values from the mineral. In this study results are presented with respect to microwave digestion of zircon using ammonium acid fluoride (NH 4 F·1.5HF). Two distinct experimental methods were used. In the first method the reaction was followed in the temperature range 100 to 200 ºC, for a full reaction period of 60 minutes at each temperature. The second method comprised successive digestion periods interrupted by washing and re-introduction of fresh acid fluoride at a series of reaction temperatures varying between 120 and 240 °C. Complete digestion was achieved with the latter technique. The kinetics is shown to be controlled by product-layer diffusion. The two data sets were combined to derive consistent temperature-dependent kinetic parameters. A facile numerical technique for extracting these parameters from the experimental data is used.

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