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Production of precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment relatively free of .alpha.-FEOOH
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorFranz Hund
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AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorFranz Hund
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In the production of a precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment of hematite structure wherein an aqueous iron (II) salt solution is mixed with an aqueous alkali solution in substantially equivalent quantities to produce an aqueous suspension of iron (II) hydroxide or carbonate, the suspension is oxidized by passing oxygen-containing gases through it with stirring under atmospheric pressure at a temperature of about 0.degree. to 50.degree.C, and the resulting iron (III) seed suspension is allowed to grow into precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment by further oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas at a temperature of about 50.degree. to 100.degree.C in the presence of more iron (II) salt and alkali solution or in the presence of iron (II) salt and metallic iron at a pH-value kept in the acid range, the improvement which comprises producing the iron (III) seed suspension in the presence of a foreign modifying substance so that lattice-distorted, chemically reactive finely divided delta-FeOOH seeds are formed, whereby the resulting red iron (III) oxide pigment contains less than about 15 % by weight of .alpha.-FeOOH. The modifying substance may be a chloride of magnesium, calcium or aluminum, vanadium pentoxide, sodium phosphate, erythritol, mannitol, glyceric acid, K, Na-tartrate, Na-citrate, ribose, glucose, fructose, tannin, or NH.sub.4 --, Ca--, Al--, Fe or Mg-lignin sulfonate.
In the production of a precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment of hematite structure wherein an aqueous iron (II) salt solution is mixed with an aqueous alkali solution in substantially equivalent quantities to produce an aqueous suspension of iron (II) hydroxide or carbonate, the suspension is oxidized by passing oxygen-containing gases through it with stirring under atmospheric pressure at a temperature of about 0.degree. to 50.degree.C to form a suspension of iron (III) seed, and the resulting iron (III) seed suspension is allowed to grow into precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment by further oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas at a temperature of about 50.degree. to 100.degree.C in the presence of more iron (II) salt and alkali solution or in the presence of iron (II) salt and metallic iron at a pH-value kept in the acid range, the improvement which comprises producing the iron (III) seed suspension by oxidation with the oxygen-contaning gases for about 4 to 30 minutes and in the presence of at least one foreign modifying substance selected from the group consisting of a compound of magnesium, calcium, copper, zinc, aluminum, antimony, phosphorus, arsenic, vandium and silicon, so that lattice-distorted chemically reactive finely divided delta--FeOOH seeds are formed, whereby the resulting red iron (III) oxide pigment contains less than about 15% by weight of .alpha.--FeOOH.
In the production of a precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment of hematite structure wherein an aqueous iron (II) salt solution is mixed with an aqueous alkali solution in substantially equivalent quantities to produce an aqueous suspension of iron (II) hydroxide or carbonate, the suspension is oxidized by passing oxygencontaining gases through it with stirring under atmospheric pressure at a temperature of about 0.degree. to 50.degree.C to form a suspension of iron (III) seed, and the resulting iron (III) seed suspension is allowed to grow into precipitated red iron (III) oxide pigment by further oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas at a temperature of about 50.degree. to 100.degree.C in the presence of more iron (II) salt and alkali solution or in the presence of iron (II) salt and metallic iron at a pH-value kept in the acid range, the improvement which comprises producing the iron (III) seed suspension by oxidation with the oxygen-containing gases for about 4 to 30 minutes and in the presence of at least one foreign modifying substance selected from the group consisting of a trihydric or polyhydric alcohol, aliphatic monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid with more than one alcohol group in the molecule, aliphatic tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol group in the molecule, and monosaccharide, disaccharide or polysaccharide hydroxyaldehyde or hydroxyketone, so that lattice-distorted chemically reactive finely divided delta--FeOOH seeds are formed, whereby the resulting red iron (III) oxide pigment contains less than about 15% by weight of .alpha.--FeOOH.
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