Van Arkel–de Boer process

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The van Arkel–de Boer process, also known as the iodide process or crystal-bar process, was the first industrial process for the commercial production of pure ductile titanium, zirconium and some other metals. It was developed by Anton Eduard van Arkel and Jan Hendrik de Boer in 1925 for Philips Nv.[1][2][3][4][5] Now, it is used in the production of small quantities of ultrapure titanium and zirconium. It primarily involves the formation of the metal iodides and their subsequent decomposition to yield pure metal, for example, at one of the Allegheny Technologies' Albany plants.[6]

This process was superseded commercially by the Kroll process (based on the reduction of titanium tetrachloride by metallic magnesium).

  1. ^ Van Arkel, A. E.; De Boer, J. H. (1925). "Darstellung von reinem Titanium-, Zirkonium-, Hafnium- und Thoriummetall". Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie (in German). 148 (1): 345–350. doi:10.1002/zaac.19251480133.
  2. ^ U.S. patent 1,582,860
  3. ^ U.S. patent 1,666,800
  4. ^ U.S. patent 1,718,616
  5. ^ U.S. patent 1,709,781
  6. ^ U.S. patent 4,487,629
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