Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabrication in the powdered state of ceramic compounds formed between a metalloid and a refractory metal, characterized in that it involves the following steps:a) said metalloid is caused to react with a reducing metal within a liquid bath constituted at least partly by a fused salt of said reducing metal in order to obtain a saltlike intermediate compound which combines said reducing metal and the metalloid, in solution in said bath,b) a reducible salt of said refractory metal is then injected into said bath in a divided form which is directly distributed throughout the bath in order to produce said powder by reaction of the reducible salt with said intermediate compound of the reducing metal.

Abstract: In a process for the production of a metal by reducing a salt of said metal, an exchange is carried out between a reducing metal and a reducible metal within a fused salt bath under conditions in which the reducible metal in the reduced metal state is immiscible in the bath in the presence of the reducing metal which has previously been dissolved in the bath.