摘要:
A block of tantalum or niobium is first stripped of superficial impurities by immersion in an acid bath, for instance hydrofluoric acid. Thence it is dried in a vacuum and saturated with hydrogen under high pressure and heat. This embrittles the body which is fragmented into coarse metal-hydride particles. The brittle fragments are crushed to a powder of the desired fineness and the powder is cleaned in boiling acid then degassed in a vacuum under heat to transform the interstitial hydride to the pure-metal powder.
摘要:
RHENIUM POWDER HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE FROM 0.005 TO 0.03 MICRON, ANY OXYGEN CONTENT NOT EXCEEDING 3 MG. PER SQUARE METER OF SURFACE, AND IS NON-PYROPHORIC IS DISCLOSED.
摘要:
A nonpyrophoric metal powder of Group IVb, Group Vb, Group VIb or the actinium series of the Periodic Table, having a particle size of 0.03 to 0.1 micron and a low surface area to volume ratio.
摘要:
A process for recovering molybdenum, either as a compound or as the elemental metal, from roasted molybdenum concentrates, e.g. resulting from the roasting of molybdenum sulfide compositions, comprises digesting the concentrate in aqueous nitric acid containing ammonium nitrate, separating the solid phase from the liquid phase, and treating the solid phase with alkali, preferably ammonium hydroxide, to produce ammonium molybdate. The latter may be converted into metallic molybdenum.
摘要:
A process for producing high-purity niobium and tantalum wherein the oxide of the metal is intimately mixed with carbon, e.g., fine graphite, in an amount such that the oxygen is present in a slight excess beyond the quantity of carbon required to react stoichiometrically with the metal oxide. In the first stage, the mixture is subjected to a high vacuum at the order of 10 4 torr. at a temperature of about 1,800* C. to carry out an initial reduction, the reduced material containing about 500 to 10,000 parts per million (p.p.m.) of oxygen. In an intermediate stage, the partly reduced product is combined with finely divided carbon pyrolytically precipitated from a hydrocarbon in a retort permeable to hydrogen (at elevated temperature), so that the carbon is uniformly distributed over the surface of the partly reduced product. In the second state, the mixture of the partially reduced product and the finely divided pyrolytically precipitated carbon is subjected to a temperature below to 2,000* C. and nevertheless sufficient to effect a final reduction. Preferably the latter temperature is about 1,700* C. The resulting high-purity metal (i.e., tantalum or niobium), may be used in electrolytic capacitors.