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US 2013/0216455 A1Published application
Treatment of tantalum- and/or niobium-containing compounds
AssigneeThe South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Limited
InventorsJacobus Beyers Wagener, Andrew Dirk Pienaar, Pieter Andries Blatt Carstens
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Abstract
A process for treating a feedstock comprising tantalum- and/or niobium-containing compounds is provided. The process includes contacting the feedstock with a gaseous fluorinating agent, thereby to fluorinate tantalum and/or niobium present in the feedstock compounds. The resultant fluorinated tantalum and/or niobium compounds are recovered.
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A process for treating a feedstock comprising tantalum- and/or niobium-containing compounds, which process includes
- contacting the feedstock with a gaseous fluorinating agent, thereby to fluorinate tantalum and/or niobium present in the feedstock compounds;
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- recovering the resultant fluorinated tantalum and/or niobium compounds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.