Abstract
Chromium, with and without 4 vol.-% thoria, and nickel powders were ground to fine powder sizes by ball-milling in gaseous hydrogen halides. After reducing the milled chromium in flowing hydrogen under pulsating pressure at ∼680°C, submicron-size powders with 4–500 ppm residual halogens were obtained. The compacted chromium–thoria alloys had interparticle spacings ranging from 2·1 to 6·5 μm. After 100 h at 1318°C the interparticle spacing of the 2·1-μm alloy increased to 5·2 μm. Submicron-size chromium and nickel powders were also obtained by pulsating hydrogen reduction of their chlorides.
Notes
* Manuscript received 27 January 1969.