NICKEL COATED DIAMOND PARTICLES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAID PARTICLES

摘要

A method of evenly coating small abrasive particles, specifically a method of coating diamond particles≦̸10 μm with nickel, and an abrasive article containing the coated abrasive particles, for example, a fixed diamond wire. The method includes applying ultrasonic energy to the plating bath and adjusting the power of the ultrasonic energy that a non-agglomeration factor (NAF) of the batch of abrasive particle is at least about 0.9, the non-agglomeration factor defined as a ratio (D50sa/D50b), wherein D50b represents the median particle size of the coated abrasive particles and D50sa represents the median particle size of the abrasive particles prior to coating.