| 摘要 |
An alumina composite sintered body 1 in which fine particles 2 are dispersed in the crystal grains 4 and/or at the crystal grain boundaries 3 of an alumina sintered body obtained by sintering alumina crystal grains 4 ; an evaluation method thereof; and a spark plug using the alumina composite sintered body 1 . Arbitrary regions in the cross-section of the alumina composite sintered body 1 are taken as analysis surfaces, and when the cross-sectional areas of the fine particles 2 contained in each analysis surface are measured, the ratio of the cross-sectional areas occupying in the area of the analysis surface is from 1 to 20%; when the cross-sectional areas of the fine particles 2 contained in each of analysis surfaces adjacent to each other are measured, and the cross-sectional area is converted into a circle having the same area, the diameter of the circle is from 0.1 to 4 mum; and when the concentration A (wt %) of the fine particles 2 contained in each analysis surface is compared with the concentration B (wt %) of the fine particles 2 used at the production, the difference between the concentration A and the concentration B is within ±20 wt %.
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