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Biography

Xu Caidong, male, Han nationality is a native of Fengxin, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from Jiaotong University and received his doctorate from the Electrochemical and Electrometallurgical Advanced Industrial College in France.

Xu spent most of his career as a researcher at Guizhou Academy of Science. During the 1950s, Xu supervised several key experiments, including an experiment in blast furnace mercury smelting that significantly increased the output and rate of recovery of mercury smelting; an experiment dealing with using the electrolysis method to produce potassium permanganate; and the successful use of a shaft furnace producing cakcuyn-magnesium-phosphor fertilizer, which was produced by the regional plants of China.

For many years, Xu engaged in research on non-ferrous metallurgical physics and chemistry. He possessed significant insights into the theory of acid lixivium iron removal in wet-process metallurgy. He also engaged in the theoretical research on metallurgical process of Panzhihua vanadium-titanium-magnetite iron minerals. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.