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Radiotracers in Minerals Engineering

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Radioisotopes and general radiochemical techniques find a multitude of uses in the mineral processing and metallurgical industries, for two principal reasons. Both are based on the simplicity of detecting the radiation emitted by radioisotopes and of using the radiation not only to identify the radioisotope involved but also to measure its concentration in the system being monitored. Thus, on the one hand, a radioactive isotope may be introduced into a reacting system and, because the isotope will behave chemically in a manner identical to all the other isotopes of the same element present, it then becomes possible to follow the reaction without chemically interfering with the system in any way. This ability may be crucial, for example in studying, surface reactions such as froth flotation, where the concentrations of the reagents involved are very small; in studies involving interchange between the solid and the gas phase, as in many processes in pyrometallurgy; or in studies of solvent extraction or ion exchange methods. On the other hand, the fact that many non-radioactive isotopes can be converted into a radioactive form, in situ, can provide a sensitive, non-destructive method of detecting very small concentrations of these elements.

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