PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF MAGNESIUM

摘要

Magnesium is produced from a mixture of magnesium oxide and calcium oxide by blending the mixture with silicon or ferro-silicon and shaping the blend in the form of briquets, heating the briquets in an inert atmosphere under temperature and pressure conditions capable of substantially inhibiting formation of magnesium vapor, said temperature being not lower than the melting point of calcium-silicon alloy, and thereby producing calcium-silicon alloy within said briquets and subsequently heating the briquets for thereby reducing magnesium oxide.