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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
The suitability of several polyfunctional carboxylic acids as coprecipitating agents for Ba, Y, and Cu was investigated. Essentially complete precipitation from alcoholic solutions was achieved for all three metals when tartaric acid was employed as the precipitating agent. The amorphous precipitate formed under these conditions was composed of uniform particles about 50 nm in diameter, and was converted readily to high purity Ba2YCu3O7−x.