The conductivities of solid solutions which contained 10mol% of a rare-earth oxide were measured (table 146) in order to determine the form of the temperature variation. It was found that the Arrhenius plots were broken straight lines, with a number of linear sections which depended upon the nature of the added ion. There was a decrease in the number of linear segments, and a shift of the low-temperature break towards higher temperatures, as the radius and polarizability of the rare-earth ion increased. This behavior was attributed to a change in the electrostatic potential, that occurred at an anion site due to a change in the average interionic distance, and to a change in the contribution which the ion-dipole interaction made to the potential energy of the anion (see entries for ZrO2-Gd2O3, ZrO2-Lu2O3, ZrO2-Nd2O3, ZrO2-Sc2O3, ZrO2-Y2O3 and ZrO2-Yb2O3).

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Table 146

Ionic Conduction Parameters for ZrO2-10mol%Ho2O3

Ho: ionic radius = 0.0901, polarizability = 0.0016