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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2002
Jainagesh Akkaraju Sekhar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jean-Jacques Duruz, Geneva, CH;
James Jenq Liu, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Moltech Invent S.A., , LU;
Abstract
A refractory boride body or coating made of a boride of titanium, chromium, vanadium, ziconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, molybednum and cerium is produced from a slurry of the refractory boride or a precursor in a collidal carrier preferably composed of two more different grades of the same colloidal carrier selected from colloidal alumina, yttria, ceria, thoria, zirconia, magnesia, lithia, monoaluminum phosphate and cerium acetate. The slurry can also comprise an organic additive selected from polyvinyl alcohol; polyacrylic acid; hydroxyy propyl methyl cellulose; polythylene glycol; ethylene glycol, butyl benzyl phthalate; ammonium polymethacrylate and mixtures thereof. The retractory boride body or coated body is useful as a component of aluminum electrowinning cells.