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Table 1:                                          cerium on the particles of Fe2O3 (9,2 mg/g) and
                                                  Fe3O4 particles (7.5 mg/g).
Parameters of sorption isotherms of europium,
cerium and copper particles Fe2O3 and Fe3O4       4. Conclusions

Metal Fe2O3  А∞,   R2, %  Fe3O4  А∞,   R2, %      The effect of the deposition conditions (temper-
       K     mg/g  89.85  K      mg/g  92.97      ature, concentration of iron in solution) on the
             21.3         0.024  19.7             phase composition, particle size and magne-
Eu 0.007                                          tization. A comparison of the efficiency of ex-
                                                  traction and sorption capacity of heavy metals
Ce 0.346 9.2 94.83 0.162 7.5 90.52                in phase magnetite and hematite.

Cu 0.029 15.7 94.12 0.039 11.66 93.57             It was found that the formation of magnetite
                                                  phase is significantly affected by the deposition
At concentrations above 90 mg/l for the Eu (III)  temperature. The higher the temperature, the
and 70 mg/l for Cu (II) adsorption excess is      greater the amount of magnetite phase in the
associated with a different, more complex         sample. Carrying out the synthesis at 90°C in a
mechanism.                                        0.15M solution promotes formation of iron
                                                  powder containing phase magnetite (Fe3O4)
The results of calculations by Langmuir's         100 wt.% .
method is shown in Table 1. As can be seen
from the data, the size of the sorption capacity  Regardless of the deposition conditions form
Fe2O3 particles with 150 m2/g specific surface    spherical particles having an average size
for all investigated metals are higher than the   ranging from 7 to 15 nm, raising the deposition
sorbents based on Fe3O4 with 130 m2/g specific    temperature and reducing the concentration of
surface. The highest sorption capacity is         iron in the solution contributes to obtaining a
observed for the europium – 21.3 mg/g and         powder with larger particles that are charac-
19.7 mg/g on the particles of Fe2O3 and Fe3O4,    terized by a higher value of magnetization.
respectively, and the lowest is observed for

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