An
extraction operation or process in which a metal from one phase is exchanged with the equivalent
amount of a second metal from the other phase.
Notes:
-
This term may be used in connection with any step (e.g. loading, scrubbing or stripping in a process).
-
This applies also to organic or molecular species.
Source:
PAC, 1993, 65, 2373
(Nomenclature for liquid-liquid distribution (solvent extraction) (IUPAC Recommendations
1993))
on page 2387