Ammonium Bicarbonate → Lanthanum carbonate anhydrous

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An aqueous solution of lanthanum nitrate in a concentration of 0.2 mole/liter as lanthanum and having a pH of 3 was prepared by dissolving lanthanum oxide in nitric acid and 1 liter of this nitrate solution was admixed under agitation at room temperature with 1 liter of an aqueous solution containing 79 g (1 mole) of ammonium hydrogen carbonate to give an aqueous slurry of lanthanum carbonate. The amount of the ammonium hydrogen carbonate added to the nitrate solution was in excess by 67% over the stoichiometrically equivalent amount to the lanthanum nitrate.

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