Process for the synthesis of iron powder

Patent · Sat Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6398684

A process for preparing iron powder suitable for use in preparing the iron-potassium perchlorate heat-powder fuel mixture used in thermal batteries, comprises preparing a homogeneous, dense iron oxide hydroxide precipitate by homogeneous precipitation from an aqueous mixture of a ferric salt, formic or sulfuric acid, ammonium hydroxide and urea as precipitating agent; and then reducing the dense iron oxide hydroxide by treatment with hydrogen to prepare the iron powder.

• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00656
• Assignee: EDB-83-075462
• Application Number: ON: DE83010474
• OSTI ID: 6398684
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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