Claims
- 1. A powdered material consisting essentially of spherical particles of a titanium base material, said powdered material being essentially free of elliptical shaped material and being essentially free of elongated particles, said powdered material having a particle size of less than about 50 micrometers and produced by the process comprising
- (a) mechanically reducing the size of a titanium based material to produce a finer powder;
- (b) entraining said finer powder in a carrier gas and passing said powder through a high temperature zone at a temperature above the melting point of said finer powder, said temperature being from about 5500.degree. C. to about 17,000.degree. C., said temperature being created by a plasma jet, to melt at least about 50% by weight of said finer powder to form essentially spherical particles of said melted portion and
- (c) rapidly and directly resolidifying the resulting high temperature treated material while said material is in flight.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 904,317, filed 9/8/86 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,783,216.
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