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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
The studied transformation is associated with the decomposition reaction of brucite-type hydroxides into the corresponding oxide. It is shown, by various techniques (X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, proton conductivity) that some modifications take place in the hydroxide structure before its transformation into the oxide structure,i.e., at a temperature lower than the transformation temperature. A mechanism is proposed to account for the experimental data.