THE OXIDATION OF MAGNETITE AND RELATED SPINELS - CONSTITUTION OF GAMMA FERRIC OXIDE
THE OXIDATION OF MAGNETITE AND RELATED SPINELS - CONSTITUTION OF GAMMA FERRIC OXIDE
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DOI:
10.1039/tf9565201642
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
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通讯作者:
WELCH, AJE
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作者:
DAVID, I;WELCH, AJE
A detailed study has been made of products obtained by oxidizing magnetite FenFein04, prepared under a variety of controlled conditions, in oxygen at various temperatures. Specimens of magnetite which gave gamma ferric oxide on oxidation invariably contained appreciable percentages of water, while specimens prepared under dry conditions oxidized with great difficulty, never yielding the gamma oxide. It has also been found that the gamma oxide itself contains a small percentage of water, which apparently cannot be removed without destroying the characteristic spinel structure. It is suggested that current views on the defect structure of gamma ferric oxide are inadequate, and that the structure is stabilized by the presence of hydroxyl ions which replace some of the oxygen ions of the spinel lattice. Preliminary experiments on the oxidation of hercynite, FeA1204, a structural analogue of magnetite, are reported.Gamma ferric oxide (y-Fe2O3) is a relatively unstable, ferromagnetic, cubic form of the oxide, generally prepared by oxidation of magnetite (Fex1Fe2n* 04) at a moderate temperature, or by dehydration of a corresponding gamma hydrate (7-FeOOH, lepidocrocite) prepared from certain ferrous compounds by oxidation in solution or in suspension. 1 X-Ray examination shows the y-oxide to possess the well-known spinel structure, although the ratio of metal cations to oxygen ions in Fez03 is considerably smaller (0.67) than that characteristic of a spinel (0-75). The generally accepted structure of the y-oxide, proposed independently by Hagg 2 and by Verwey, 3 is accordingly a defect structure; the unit-cell content is formulated as Fe21. 33032.00, and the 21.33 Fe3+ cations are considered to be distributed statistically over the 24 possible cation positions, 2.67 cation sites