PROCESS FOR THE SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF GERMANIUM FROM ZINC ORES

The invention provides a process for recovering germanium as germanium oxide from a germaniferous metallic zinc which involves distilling the germaniferous metallic zinc under non-oxidizing conditions, recovering the distillation residue which contains the germanium, leaching the recovered distillat...

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Main Authors DEMARTHE J.M, FOSSI P, LEBLEU A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.05.1982
Subjects
CHEMISTRY
COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSESC01D OR C01F
FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
METALLURGY
PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
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Summary:The invention provides a process for recovering germanium as germanium oxide from a germaniferous metallic zinc which involves distilling the germaniferous metallic zinc under non-oxidizing conditions, recovering the distillation residue which contains the germanium, leaching the recovered distillation residue with chlorine water to convert the germanium into germanium tetrachloride, hydrolyzing the germanium tetrachloride into germanium oxide, and recovering the germanium oxide. Optionally, the germanium oxide may be reduced to metallic germanium, if desired.
Bibliography:Application Number: YU19760001643