Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Eugen Wettstein

Manfred Ohlinger

Guenter Vaeth

Norbert Mueller

Peter Rudolf

Eduard Schoenafinger

Heinz Stritzinger

Wolfgang Guth

Ferromagnetic chromium dioxide is prepared by converting oxides of trivalent and hexavalent chromium under superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperatures in the presence of water and with the addition of an antimony compound as a modifier and, if required, further additives in an amount of not more than 15% by weight, by a method in which the antimony compound is present in the form of a water-soluble salt whose anion contains one or more organic molecular moieties which are oxidized in concentrated chromic acid.

Preparation of ferromagnetic chromium dioxide

A process for the manufacture of ferromagnetic chromium dioxide modified with foreign elements, by reacting oxides of trivalent and hexavalent chromium under superatmospheric pressure at an elevated temperature in the presence of water and of antimony(III) oxide as modifier, with or without other modifiers in an amount not exceeding 15% by weight, wherein the antimony(III) oxide employed as modifier is, to the extent of more than one-third, present as the senarmontite cubic modification, has a specific surface area, measured by the BET method, of from 1.5 to 15 m.sup.2 /g, and is added in a total amount of up to 0.5% by weight, based on the resulting chromium dioxide.

Process for the manufacture of ferromagnetic chromium dioxide

Acicular .gamma.-iron(III) oxide is manufactured by reacting an iron(II) salt solution with aqueous solutions of alkali metal hydroxides and oxidizing the resulting suspension of iron(II) hyroxides in 3 stages. In the first stage not more than 8 percent by weight of the iron(II) hydroxide originally present is oxidized over a period of 0.5 to 4 hours, in the second stage from 25 to 55 percent by weight over a period of 1.5 to 6 hours and the remainder thereof in a third stage. Following this oxidation, the goethite formed is reduced to magnetite, which is then oxidized to acicular .gamma.-iron(III) oxide.

Manufacture of .gamma.-iron(III) oxide

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