The invention provides a preparation method capable of preparing high-purity ZrC
powder on a large scale and ZrC
powder.The preparation method comprises the steps that firstly,
zirconium metal salt, deionized water, organic ligands and absolute ethyl
alcohol are subjected to ultrasonic mixing, and a
metal salt solution and an organic solution are obtained; pouring the organic solution into the
metal salt solution to form a
mixed solution, and ultrasonically removing gas in the solution; dropwise adding a small amount of
ammonia water into the
mixed solution, shaking, performing ultrasonic treatment to enable the solution to be uniform, and standing for a period of time to obtain metal organic gel; centrifugally cleaning the gel, and
drying the cleaned gel in a
drying oven at a certain temperature to obtain dry gel
powder; and finally, putting the dry gel powder into a
graphite crucible, and carrying out high-temperature
cracking in a vacuum carbon
tube furnace to obtain the high-purity ZrC powder. Impurities are prevented from being introduced into a traditional ball milling process, the metal organic gel can achieve uniform combination of metal ions and organic ligand atoms, the ZrC powder is endowed with the excellent characteristics of 50-200 nm nanoscale size, high purity, uniform distribution,
spherical morphology and the like, and meanwhile the preparation method is short in period, low in temperature, low in cost,
environmentally friendly in
raw material and suitable for industrial production. The method is easy to control and suitable for large-scale preparation.