Preparative Liquid Chromatography and the Manhattan Project

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LCGC North AmericaDecember 1999
Volume 17
Issue 12
Pages: 1104–1109

This report summarizes activities performed during and after World War II at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Iowa State University aimed at the separation of rare earths by ion-exchange chromatography on laboratory, pilot-plant, and industrial scales.

LCGC 17(12), 1104–1109 (1999).
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