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“Background The selective removal of 137Cs ions from liquid radioactive waste and their quantitative determination in the environment have a great importance in recent years. Insoluble divalent transition metal medroxyprogesterone hexacyanoferrates(II) are very effective inorganic adsorbents for cesium ions [1]. Because they possess a high selectivity for Cs binding in the presence of alkaline earth and alkali metal ions, several attempts have been made to use
hexacyanoferrates (HCFs) for the treatment of liquid radioactive waste with high salt content [2, 3]. However, HCFs are usually synthesized as fine or ultrafine grains which are difficult for practical applications due to their low mechanical stability and tendency to become colloidal in aqueous solution. In order to improve their mechanical properties, deposition of insoluble hexacyanoferrates on various solid supports has been suggested as a possible solution. Different composite adsorbents were fabricated by loading nanosized HCFs onto the surface or inside of pores of inert solid supports such as silica gels [4], zeolites [5], zirconium and titanium hydroxides [6], different organic ion exchangers [7, 8], etc. Fibrous natural and synthetic polymers with ion exchange groups are promising host solid support for the synthesis of composite adsorbent with nanosized HCFs.