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US 4,050,962 AGranted
Manufacture of ferromagnetic, acicular metallic iron particles by hydrogen reduction
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsEberhard Koester, Gerd Wunsch, Eduard Schoenafinger, Henning Schneehage
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Abstract
A process for the manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic metal pigments containing iron, having a reduced field strength distribution and a steeper residual magnetization curve, by applying equivalent amounts of an alkaline earth metal cation and of a monobasic, dibasic or tribasic aliphatic carboxylic acid of up to 6 carbon atoms onto appropriate acicular iron oxides and then reducing the treated oxides.
Claims8
A process for the manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic iron metal particles which comprises the steps of:
- a. dispersing acicular iron oxide in a solution of an alkaline earth metal salt in a solvent wherein the alkaline earth metal cation of said metal salt is selected from the group consisting of calcium, barium and strontium, and the acid anion of said metal salt is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monobasic, dibasic and tribasic carboxylic acid anions of from 2 to 6 carbon atoms;
- b. removing the solvent by evaporation, said alkaline earth metal salt being applied to said acicular iron oxide in an amount of from 0.2 to 10% by weight based on the iron oxide employed;
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- c. reducing the so-treated pulverulent acicular iron oxide by passing gaseous hydrogen at a temperature of from 230 to 350.degree. C over said treated iron oxide to form acicular iron metal particles retaining the acicular shape of the acicular iron oxide starting material and being from 0.1 to 0.6 .mu.m in length with a length-to-thickness ratio of from 10 to 25:1.
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