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Process for producing inorganic microspheres

US5849055A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 7, 1997
Grant dateDec 15, 1998
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Expiry dateMar 7, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC01P2004/61
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for producing inorganic microspheres (solid spheres or hollow spheres), which comprises pulverizing a material by wet pulverization to an average particle size of at most 5 .mu.m to obtain a slurry of a pulverized powder material, spraying the slurry to form liquid droplets, and heating the liquid droplets to fuse or sinter the powder material to obtain inorganic microspheres.

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