- P-ISSN 1225-0163
- E-ISSN 2288-8985
An extraction chromatographic method of separating rare earth impurities from high purity <TEX>$Nd_2O_3$</TEX>, <TEX>$Sm_2O_3$</TEX>, <TEX>$Gd_2O_3$</TEX>, <TEX>$Er_2O_3$</TEX>, <TEX>$Dy_2O_3$</TEX> and <TEX>$Yb_2O_3$</TEX> was studied by using <TEX>$HCl-NH_4Cl$</TEX> as moving phase and P507 as stationary phase. After the impurities were enriched from the eluate by chelant-activated carbon, the active carbon was ashed and the ignited residue was used to prepare the sample electrode for spark source mass spectrometric determination. The impurities in 99.9999% rare earth oxide can be determined by the proposed method with recovery over 80%.