Sandvik Ab

Sverker Wahlberg

Mamoun Muhammed

Ingmar Grenthe

Inger Grenthe

According to the present invention there is now provided a method for preparing a powder containing W and Co and/or Ni characterized in reacting APT and a soluble salt of Co (Ni) in water at temperatures from room temperature to the boiling point of the solution keeping the solution pH at a constant level during the chemical reactions. The powder is filtered off, dried and reduced to a metallic powder which may be further carburized to form a powder containing WC and Co and/or Ni.

Method of preparing powders for hard materials from APT and soluble

There is disclosed a method for preparing a powder containing ammonium salts of W+Co(Ni) complex ions, through chemical reactions, in a water solution at temperatures from 70.degree. C. to the boiling point and at pH around neutral, between tungstate salts and cobalt (nickel) salts characterized in that said tungstate salts are the highly soluble sodium tungstate or ammonium metatungstate.

Method of preparing powders for hard materials from cobalt salts and

According to the invention there is now provided a simple method of preparing a powder containing WC and cobalt and/or nickel. APT-powder and a powder of a basic salt of cobalt and/or cobalt are mixed in water or in mixed solvents. The suspension is stirred to react at temperatures ranging from room temperature to the boiling point of the solution whereby a precipitate is formed, which precipitate is filtered off, dried and finally reduced to a metallic powder.

Method of preparing powders for hard materials

There is now provided a method for preparing a powder containing W and Co and/or Ni from APT and a soluble salt of Co(Ni) by a chemical reaction in a water suspension at temperatures from room temperature to the boiling point of the solution whereafter the formed powder is filtered off, dried and reduced to a metallic powder. Additional metals from groups IVa, Va or VIa of the periodic table of the elements are added to the suspension as compounds like oxides, hydroxides, soluble or insoluble salts.

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