摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for efficiently and inexpensively recovering germanium from scrap of an electronics material, such as a used sputtering target material containing small amounts of germanium or machining chips, odds and ends, etc., of the sputtering target material or from other scraps used as a working material for a catalyst, a thermocouple, a resistance thermometer, etc. <P>SOLUTION: The germanium-containing scrap is dissolved by means of a mixed acid containing hydrochloric acid. The resultant dissolved scrap is evaporated and is collected and recovered as germanium chloride in pure water. Further, the germanium chloride is neutralized and precipitated in the form of germanium hydroxide. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO</p> |