H.c. Starck Gmbh

Malcolm Shaw

Terrance B Tripp

Richard Hildreth

Leo G Gibbons

Tantalum anode pellets or tantalum powders are treated to remove carbon content (mostly attributable to binders used in pressing the powders to pellet form and/or sintering of the pellets) by an aqueous leach at 50.degree.-200.degree. F. in lieu of the conventional complex distillation/decomposition methods.

Removal of binder from Ta products

Fine tantalum powder of high surface area, high capacitance, low leakage and high breakdown voltage is produced by sodium reduction of highly dilute fluotantalate salt charges at high reaction temperatures and stepwise additions of the sodium reducing agent in a time-series of substantially even weight slugs added over the whole course of the reduction reaction to a melt of the charge and using the small exotherm of reduction provided by each slug as a temperature control factor.

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