• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.3796-3798
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• 2011

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.3141-3142
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• 2009

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.255-256
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• 2008

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.661-665
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• 2013

Effect of organic acid on the preparation of indium-oxalate salt from indium scraps generated from ITO glass manufacturing process was studied. Effects of parameters, such as type and concentration of organic acids, pH of reactant, temperature, reaction time on indium-oxalate salt preparation were examined. The impurity removal efficiency was similar for both oxalic acid and citric acid, but citric acid did not make organic acid salt with indium. The optimum conditions were 1.5 M oxalic acid, pH 7, $80^{\circ}C$, and 6 hours. On the other hand, the recoveries increased with pH, but the purity decreased. The indium-oxalate salt purity prepared by two cycles was 99.995% (4N5). The indium-oxalate salt could be converted to indium oxide and indium metal by substitution reaction and calcination.