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Rolf Naumann

Jakob Rademachers

Gunter Buxbaum

Fritz Rodi

Lutz Leitner

Hans-Peter Biermann

Franz Hund

Artur Botta

Helmut Steinberger

Heinrich Heine

Ulrike Pitzer

Wolfgang Rambold

Gunther Teichmann

Heinrich-Christian Schopper

Rolf-Michael Braun

Gerhard Schroeder

Karl Waid

Non-silking iron oxide yellow pigments with high color density. Iron oxide yellow pigments in the .alpha.-FeOOH modification with a silking index of less than 5 were obtained in which

Non-silking iron oxide yellow pigments with high color density

Needle shaped alloy pigment powders consisting essentially of iron, silicon and aluminum, with up to 1.0% by weight of chromium and one or both of cobalt or tin in amounts from 0.3 to 3% by weight of cobalt and from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of tin, based in each case on the iron, are useful as the magnetic powders used in magnetic recording devices.

Needle shaped alloy powders based on iron and their use

Sensitive magnetic pigment particles enclosed in about 0.1 to 5% by weight of a polymeric material thereby preserving the pigment magnetic properties. Advantageously, the polymer, which serves as a packing, is at least one member selected from the group consisting of polycarbonates, polyacrylates, polymethacrylates, polyesters, polyethers, polyurethanes, polyvinyl compounds, polyvinylidene compounds and cellulose compounds. These are compatible with the matrices used to make magnetic tapes.

Stabilized magnetic pigments

Highly pure and highly color intensive black anisometric magnetite iron oxide pigment having an FeO content of from 26 to 29% by weight and manganese content of less than 0.1% by weight, said pigment further having a specific BET surface area of from 5 to 15 square meters per gram and being needle shaped particles with an average needle diameter of 0.1 to 0.2 .mu.m and an average needle length of from 0.6 to 0.8 .mu.m are produced by producing .alpha.-FeOOH particles by alkali precipitation of an iron salt solution with a nuclear formation stage oxidation and a pigment growth stage oxidation followed by reduction and passivation.

Color-intensive iron oxide black pigments and process for their

A magnetic pigment consisting essentially of iron, having an X-ray crystallite size with the 110 reflex of from 14 to 22 nm, a coercive force from 55 to 88 kA/m and a switching field distribution of the oriented pigment particles of less than 0.55 is produced by precipitating an iron (II)-salt with a super-stoichiometric quantity of an aqueous alkali metal carbonate solution and oxidizing it to produce .alpha.-FeOOH, .gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4 or betholoid iron oxides, subsequently reducing it to the metal, and providing the iron oxides or oxide hydroxides with an inorganic protection from sintering at the latest during reduction.

Preparation and use of iron magnetic pigments

Spherical agglomerates of surface-stabilized primary particles substantially consisting of iron, having a BET surface of about 5 to 50 m.sup.2 /g, measured on the agglomerate, in non-pyrophoric form and having a bulk density of about 0.5 to 2.0 kg/l and an agglomerate diameter of about 0.5 to 10 mm are produced by

Agglomerated ferromagnetic iron particles

A pigment of a magnetic metal or alloy thereof carrying, in about 0.2 to 30% of the weight of the metal or alloy, a coating of at least one member selected from the group consisting of an ortho-silicic acid ester, a hydrolyzate thereof and a condensation product thereof. Optionally it also carries a corrosion inhibitor. The coated pigment is produced by suspension of the untreated pigment in a liquid medium containing the ortho-silicic acid ester or derivative thereof, and optionally the corrosion inhibitor, followed by separation and drying at 50.degree. to 250.degree. C. The resulting pigment is non-pyrophoric and of high performance properties suitable for use in magnetic recording media.

Magnetic metal and alloy pigments

A metal powder, suitable for magnetic recording, consisting essentially of iron, the individual particles being acicular and containing on average no more then 5 pores and consisting on average of no more than 2 metal cores is produced by precipitating and oxidizing an aqueous iron-(II)-salt solution to produce finely divided acicular iron-(III)-oxide-hydroxide, stabilizing it as by treatment with cadmium, lead, calcium, magnesium, zinc, aluminum, chromium, tungsten, a phosphorus oxide and/or a boron oxide, converting it into ferromagnetic iron oxide of low pore content, and reducing it to metallic iron with a gaseous reducing agent at about 300.degree. to 600.degree. C.

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