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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Larry W Shive, St. Peters, MO (US);
Saeed Pirooz, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., St. Peters, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134-2 ; 134-3 ; 210688 ;
Abstract
A process and a gettering agent for gettering metals from a solution. In the process, the solution is contacted with a gettering agent having a surface layer of SiO.sub.2, the layer of SiO.sub.2 preferably being greater than 15 angstroms in thickness.