The technology of obtaining zirconium oxide, zirconium halide compounds (chlorides, fluorides) from eudialyte concentrate with subsequent production of zirconium powders, titanium-zirconium and aluminum-zirconium ligatures by metal-thermal method has been investigated. It is shown that different zirconium materials can be obtained by applying different reducing agents: sodium, magnesium or aluminum-magnesium alloys.

The complicating conditions of the high-temperature (700–900°C) process for obtaining titanium powders by metallothermic reduction of titanium chlorides from melts in a stirred reactor are the increased tendency of freshly formed metal particles to sinter together and weld onto components of the processing equipment ...