Iron-based powder for dust cores and dust core

Abstract

Provided is an iron-based powder for dust cores that has high apparent density and enables producing dust cores having high green density. An iron-based powder for dust cores comprises a maximum particle size of 1 mm or less, wherein a median circularity of particles constituting the iron-based powder for dust cores is 0.40 or more, and a uniformity number in Rosin-Rammler equation is 0.30 or more and 90.0 or less.

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