The purpose of this paper is to investigate about the dispersibility of oxidized carbon black in water, and also about the changes of the fundamental properties of these carbon blacks (e. g. specific gravity, bulk, surface area, pore volume, oil absorption, water absorption, pH and functional group such as carboxyl group on the surface).
The oxidation of carbon black (furnace type) was carried out by the aqueous solution of various oxidizing agents (potassium permanganate, sodium hypochlorite, ammonium persulfate, potassium dichromate, nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide).
The results obtained were as follow ;
1) The oxidation of carbon black by potassium permangamate, sodium hypochlorite and ammonium persulfate solution causes the nice dispersion in water.
2) The nice dispersion state in water cannot be obtained by the oxidation of carbon black with potassium dichromate, nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide, but in the case of oxidation with potassium dichromate and nitric acid, the nice dispersion state was obtained by the addition of sodium hydroxide.
3) The oxidation increases the amount of the oil absorption of carbon blacks, but decreases that of the water absorption.
4) Among the functional groups on the surface of carbon black, the carboxyl group shows the most marked influence to the dispersibility in water.
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