A high temperature process is provided, which can melt, atomize and spheroidize a coarse angular powder into a fine and spherical one. It uses thermal plasma to melt the particle in a heating chamber and a supersonic nozzle to accelerate the stream and break up the particles into finer ones.

A lead-based alloy containing alloying additions of bismuth, antimony, arsenic, and tin is used for the production of doped leady oxides, lead-acid battery active materials, lead-acid battery electrodes, and lead-acid batteries.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for continuously producing eutectic alloy fine particles, the method enabling the production of eutectic alloy particles, the particle diameters of which are easily controlled. The present invention provides a method for producing eutectic alloy fine particles that have a particle diameter of 0.1 m to 50 m, wherein: a fluid to be processed containing at least a melt of a eutectic alloy, the melt that serves as a dispersoid, and a solvent that serves as a dispersion medium is used; the fluid to be processed is continuously introduced an atomizer which atomizes the fluid to be processed between at least two processing surfaces that are arranged to face each other; the fluid to be processed goes through a dispersion state in which the melt of a eutectic alloy and the solvent are both in a liquid state within the atomizer; and solid eutectic alloy fine particles are obtained by cooling the fluid discharged from the atomizer. With respect to this method for producing eutectic alloy fine particles, the melt of a eutectic alloy is dispersed in the solvent in the form of droplets between the at least two processing surfaces; and the particle diameters of the melt of a eutectic alloy in the form of droplets are controlled by changing the viscosity of the solvent to be introduced between the at least two processing surfaces.

A lead-based alloy containing alloying additions of bismuth, antimony, arsenic, and tin is used for the production of doped leady oxides, lead-acid battery active materials, lead-acid battery electrodes, and lead-acid batteries.