New solvent extraction systems have been developed for the extraction of zinc and cadmium from aqueous chloride solution using Aliquat 336-S dissolved in the nonpolar solvents heavy aromatic naphtha and xylene as the extractant. Moderately high concentrations of the metalions (1 mg/ml zinc and 2 mg/ml Cd) can be extracted quantitatively from acid solutions with an equal volume of 5% Aliquat 336-S solution in 15 sec. Both zinc and cadmium can be stripped from the organic phase with a series of aqueous stripping solutions. When comparing zinc and cadmium, cadmium is the easier to extract and the more difficult to strip under the same experimental conditions.
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