Manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic iron particles

摘要

A process for the manufacture of acicular ferromagnetic iron particles by heating a goethite, provided with a shape-stabilizing surface coating, at 250 DEG -450 DEG C. in an atmosphere containing water vapor at a partial pressure of not less than 30 mbar, to give alpha-iron(III) oxide, and reducing this material with hydrogen at 275 DEG -425 DEG C., and the use of the iron particles thus obtained as magnetic material in the production of magnetic recording media.