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InternationalJournalofMinerals，MetallurgyandMaterials Volume22，Number3，March2015，Page319 DOh10．1007／sl2613-015．1076-0 Nitridationofchromium powderinammoniaatmosphere LingLi¨ ， QiangZhen，，andRongLi 1)Nano—ScienceandTechnologyResearchCenter,ShnaghaiUniversity，Shanghai200444，China 2)SchoolofMateriaisScienceandEngineering，ShnaghaiUniversity，Shnaghai200444，Chma (Received：12June2014；revised：6August2014；accepted：3September2014) Abstract：CrN powderwassynthesizedbynitridingCrmetalinammoniagasflow．anditschemicalreactionmechanism andnitridation processwerestudied．Throughthermodynamiccalculations．theCr_N—O predominancediagramswereconstructedfordifferenttempera- tures．Chromium nitrideformedat70O一1200。Cunderrelativelyhigherni~ogennadloweroxygenpartialpressures．Phasesinhteproducts weretheninvestigatedusingX．raydiffraction(XRD)．nadtheCr2Ncontentvariedwithreactiontemperatureandholdingtime．Theresults indicatehtattheCrmetalpowdernitridationprocesscna beexplainedbyadiffusionmode1．Further．Cr2N fomr edasanintermediateproduct becauseofanincompletereaction，whichwasobservedbyhigh—resolutiontrnasmissionelecrtonmicroscopy(HRTEM)．Afternitridingat 1000。Cofr20h，CrNpowderwithanaveragegrani sizeof63nlYlwasobtained，nadtheobtainedsamplewasnaalyzedbyusingascanning elecrtonmicroscope(SEM)． Keywords：chromium powder；nitridation；chromimu nitride；ammonia；chemicalsynthesis；reactionmechanism 1．Introductioll therma1synthesisbyaddinganhydrousCrC1nadLisN into benzene．However．1ow yieldofCrN andresidua1carbonare Transitionmetalnitridespossessmanyexcellentproper． hteprimaryproblemsthatmustbesolved．Moreover，itis ties，suchasextremehardness，high reflectivity，corrosion dnageroustohnadleorgnaicsolventsathi曲 temperatures． resistance，good stability athigh temperautres，and good Ammoniaistypicallyusedasnirtogensourceinam