The invention belongs to the field of preparation of
rare earth materials, and especially relates to an ultrafine
lanthanum oxide and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method of the ultrafine
lanthanum oxide comprises the following steps: 1, preparing a
lanthanum salt solution A; 2, preparing an anionic surfactant solution B, and adding the solution B to the solution A to obtain a solution C; 3, preparing an
oxalic acid solution, pouring the
oxalic acid solution into a reaction container, adding the solution C to the
oxalic acid solution in a dropwise manner while continuously stirring, and reacting the solution C with the oxalic acid solution to generate lanthanum
oxalate precipitate; and 4, carrying out pumping
filtration on the generated precipitate, washing with water,
drying, calcining to obtain crude
lanthanum oxide, crushing the crude
lanthanum oxide, and sieving to obtain the ultrafine
lanthanum oxide with uniformly distributed
granularity. The preparation method of the ultrafine lanthanum
oxide is simple, allows
rare earth lanthanum oxide with small
granularity and uniform particle distribution to be directly obtained through an
oxalate precipitation technology, and can avoid particle fragmentation caused by a physical technology, and the ultrafine lanthanum oxide can be directly used in magnetic materials.