the effect of temperature on the purity of nano-scale tantalum powder produced from its scrap by reaction with magnesium and calcium

In this study, ta powder was produced from ta scarp via chemical processes using mg and ca powders.initially, tantalum scraps were converted to tantalum oxide (ta2o5) at 1100°c in an oxygen atmosphere. tantalumoxide was then reduced to tantalum powder with mg in a vacuum environment at 950 to 1200°c for 3 hours. theobtained ta powders further were reacted with ca at 950°c for 5 hours in a vacuum atmosphere. the powders wereanalyzed using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), as well as conducting oxygen contentmeasurement. the results showed that the average particle size of the produced ta powders was around 58 nm withoxygen contents of 250 ppm.