Ba68Pd32Ox, with x similar or equal to 13.5

The title compound, barium palladium oxide, Ba68Pd32Ox, x similar or equal to 13.5 is a medium-sized cubic suboxide. Two of the four crystallographica lly independent Ba atoms form a network of face-sharing octahedra with O at oms occupying the central position of these octahedra, giving a network res embling the pyrochlore structure. Two of three O-atom positions are fully o ccupied and the third partially occupied. The remainder of the Ba atoms and the Pd atoms are distributed in another network residing in the channels o f the network of face-sharing O-Ba-6 octahedra.