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US 4,362,658 AGranted
Process for preparing a flame retardant composition from sodium antimonate and composition thereby produced
AssigneeMetallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt
InventorFulvio Contin
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Abstract
Sodium antimonate is made to react with an acid solution so as to transform a fraction of the sodium antimonate into pentavalent antimony oxide, thus producing a mixture of pentavalent antimony oxide and sodium antimonate, the so produced mixture is separated from the solution and that mixture is dried and pulverized. The so produced powder presents good flame retardant properties.
Claims7
A process for preparing a flame retardant composition from sodium antimonate, comprising
- (a) contacting sodium antimonate, resulting from the alkaline refining of molten antimony-bearing lead, with such an amount of a 1-5 N aqueous solution of at least one acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric, sulfuric, and nitric acid that the amount of acid ranges from 1 to 1.35 times the stoichiometric amount, between the freezing point and the boiling point of the acid solution and for at least 1 hour so as to dissolve at least 60% of the sodium contained in the antimonate, thereby leaving most of the antimony contained in the antimonate in a solid phase;
- (b) separating the solid phase from the solution;
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- (c) drying and pulverizing the solid phase.
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