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Thermal Stability of Titanium Dioxide

An Erratum to this article was published on 28 January 1961

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Vorres and Dutton1 and Vorres and Donohue2 have recently described the preparation and crystal structure of titanium dioxide. Its decomposition in dry and moist air and dry nitrogen has been determined as part of our investigations of the thermal decomposition of some inorganic fluorides.

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MACHIN, J., DEADMORE, D. Thermal Stability of Titanium Dioxide. Nature 189, 223–224 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189223b0

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