Fig. 2. Reaction tube for the syntheses. The sample is placed in a silica glass boat, whithin an inner glass tube. The assemblage is protected by an outer reaction pipe with gas in- and outlets. All parts are made of silica glass due its impermeability for vanadium.
Fig. 4. Observed (crosses) and calculated (lines) powder diffraction patterns from Rietveld refinements of pure clay annealed between 200 and 1000 °C. Q: quartz, Z: ZnO, H: hematite, R: rutile, I: illite, K: kaolinite.
Fig. 7. Lattice constants vs. Al2O3 content of pure and transition metal doped mullite samples: pure mullite (3:2), Ban & Okada (1992); mullite with 8.7 wt.-% V2O3, Schneider (1990); mullite with 10.3 wt.-% Fe2O3, Schneider (1990); mullite with 3.64 wt.-% Fe2O3, Schneider & Rager (1986); mullite with 11.1 wt.-% Fe2O3, Schneider & Rager (1986). Continuous lines show cell parameters in mullite compositions without heavy metal addition (Fischer et al., 1996), shaded areas mark the region of cell parameters obtained in this study.