ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 35, Number 3
JKCSEZ 35(3)
June 20, 1991 

Ultra-fine alumina, α-Al2O3, with φ = 0.1∼0.5 μm was obtained from pure ammonium aluminum sulfate(alum) as the thermal decomposition product. Pure alum(> 99.7%) could be prepared by the precepitation and the successive recrystallization in an acidic aqueous solution at pH = 1.5∼2.5, which was theoretically predicted by only considering the concentrations of hydroxide and carbonate for aluminum and sodium in the solution, and also experimentally confirmed as the optimum precepitation condition for alum without forming any impurities like aluminum hydroxide or sodium one.