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MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15113963
Keywords
rare-earth metals; reduction; electrolysis; bromide method; reduction melting; metallization
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- Institute of High-Temperature Electrochemistry
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The reduction reactions of CeO2, Nd2O3 and a La2O3-Nd2O3-CeO2 mixture in the lithium chloride electrolysis process were studied. By applying various analytical methods, it was found that the formation of metallic rare-earth elements was not observed at the cathode potential.
The reduction of pellets composed of individual CeO2, Nd2O3 and a La2O3-Nd2O3-CeO2 mixture by lithium extracted on a cathode during lithium chloride electrolysis at 650 degrees C was studied. The methods of cyclic voltammetry, electron microscopy, including determination of the elemental composition of the studied objects, and X-ray diffraction analysis were applied for the present study. The reduction degree of rare-earth metal (REM) oxides was determined using both the bromine method and reduction melting of the samples in the graphite crucible. The formation of the metallic phase composed of the rare-earth elements (REEs) was not observed even at the cathode potentials, corresponding to the formation of the liquid alkali metal phase, and lithium extraction, which, in the quantitative ratio, exceeds greatly the values needed for the reduction reaction. CeO2 was found to reduce to Ce2O3.
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