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THE TiO phase in titanium–oxygen alloys is known to have an extraordinarily wide range of composition, that is, from TiO0.7 to TiO1.25, and its crystal structure has varying proportions of both titanium and oxygen vacancies. Density and X-ray lattice parameter measurements1,2 have shown that a third of the oxygen sites are vacant in TiO0.7, a quarter of the titanium sites are vacant in TiO1.25 and even in stoichiometric TiO about a seventh of both sites are vacant. According to the X-ray examinations, these vacancies are arranged randomly at temperatures above the equilibrium temperature, 990° C, giving the diffraction patterns typical of a cubic NaCl-type structure. On the other hand, many weak superlattice lines have been observed on the X-ray powder patterns3,4 after annealing below 950° C, suggesting the formation of an ordered arrangement of vacancies. However, many attempts to determine this ordered structure in terms of an NaCl-type lattice with a periodic vacancy arrangement have been unsuccessful.
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WATANABE, D., CASTLES, J., JOSTSONS, A. et al. Ordered Structure of Titanium Oxide. Nature 210, 934–936 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210934a0
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