Adsorption of Iodine on Silver Wire

It is an important process in which iodine is adsorbed on silver wire during the preparation of ¹²⁵I seed sources. In this paper, a technique of adsorption of iodine on silver wire was studied. The influence of several factors, such as the type of reagent for halogenation, the time for halogenation, the time for adsorption, pH value, ion concentration, carrier iodine and so on, on the utilization rate of ¹³¹I was investigated, and the effectiveness of our proposed technique for adsorption of iodine on silver wire was confirmed. The procedure is summarized as follows: silver wire acidification: using 4 mol/L HNO₃ as halogenation agent, stirring acidificate for 20 min; silver wire halogenation: used 2 mol/L NaClO₃ as halogenate agent, halogenate for 3 h; adsorption of iodine on silver wire: room temperature, pH value for the reaction is about 3, the time for adsorption is 30 min, carrier iodine is 27.5 μg. Original radioactivity of reaction solution was determined based on radioactivity of source core that user required.