The Crystallization of Ammonium Paratungstate
Ammonium paratungstate (APT) is an important tungsten intermediate product, mainly with white crystals. It have flakes, needles and strips three kind, used in the manufacture of tungsten trioxide or blue tungsten oxide, TP, also used for manufacturing ammonium metatungstate and other tungsten compounds. Because the production of tungsten oxide, morphology and particle size of tungsten powder has genetic relationship with APT, so the production process is not only to the tungsten APT purification, but also to control the crystal morphology and particle size of paratungstate tungstate. In the 1950s, in the book "Tungsten and Molybdenum Metallurgy" by A.H rickman, used the reaction 5(NH 4 ) 2 O·12WO 3 ·nH 2 O to describe the APT formula, used the evaporation crystallization process to get n = 5 flaky crystal, and used the acid neutralization process for n = 11 needle crystal. After that in China are all using this view, that of ammonium tungst...