摘要 |
To prepare a phase-pure, ceramic oxide superconductor which contains, in addition to copper, at least one alkaline earth metal from the group comprising Ba, Sr and Ca, and at least one metal from the group comprising Y, La, Tl, Pb and the rare earths, for example of YBa2Cu3O7-x, a solution is prepared which contains the metal components in the atomic ratios of the superconductor. The metals are precipitated as oxalates by combining this solution with an oxalic acid solution, the mixture of the oxalates is separated off, dried and decomposed to form the oxides, and the latter are subsequently sintered at temperatures of from 700 DEG to 900 DEG C. in the presence of oxygen to form the superconductor. In this process, the heating of the metal oxalates and the oxides formed therefrom up to 700 DEG C. is carried out at a maximum oxygen partial pressure of 50 mbar, preferably in an inert gas.
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