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Niobium dioxide

Niobium dioxide, is the chemical compound with the formula NbO2. It is a bluish-black non-stoichiometric solid with a composition range of NbO1.94-NbO2.09. It can be prepared by reducing Nb2O5 with H2 at 800–1350 °C. An alternative method is reaction of Nb2O5 with Nb powder at 1100 °C.

Properties

The room temperature form of NbO2 has a tetragonal, rutile-like structure with short Nb-Nb distances, indicating Nb-Nb bonding. The high temperature form also has a rutile-like structure with short Nb-Nb distances. Two high-pressure phases have been reported: one with a rutile-like structure (again, with short Nb-Nb distances); and a higher pressure with baddeleyite-related structure.

NbO2 is insoluble in water and is a powerful reducing agent, reducing carbon dioxide to carbon and sulfur dioxide to sulfur. In an industrial process for the production of niobium metal, NbO2 is produced as an intermediate, by the hydrogen reduction of Nb2O5. The NbO2 is subsequently reacted with magnesium vapor to produce niobium metal.

References

References

  1. C. K. Gupta, A. K. Suri, S Gupta, K Gupta (1994), ''Extractive Metallurgy of Niobium'', CRC Press, {{ISBN. 0-8493-6071-4
  2. Pradyot Patnaik (2002), ''Handbook of Inorganic Chemicals'', McGraw-Hill Professional, {{ISBN. 0-07-049439-8
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  4. Bolzan, A. (1994). "A Powder Neutron Diffraction Study of Semiconducting and Metallic Niobium Dioxide". Journal of Solid State Chemistry.
  5. (1999). "High-pressure structural phase transitions in semiconducting niobium dioxide". Physical Review B.
  6. Patent EP1524252, Sintered bodies based on niobium suboxide, Schnitter C, Wötting G
  7. Method for producing tantalum/niobium metal powders by the reduction of their oxides by gaseous magnesium, US patent 6171363 (2001), Shekhter L.N., Tripp T.B., Lanin L.L. (H. C. Starck, Inc.)
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