Reaction of mixtures of lanthanide chlorides and transition metal chlo
rides with lithium oxide at 800 degrees C for 2 h in air provides a fa
cile route to mixed metal oxides of the formulae LnCrO(3) and LnFeO(3)
(Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb). The solids were charac
terized by X-ray powder diffraction, SEM, EDAX, FT-IR and magnetic mom
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