The present disclosure provides a composite including a nitride sintered body having a porous structure and a semi-cured product of a heat-curable composition impregnated into the nitride sintered body, wherein a dielectric breakdown voltage obtainable after disposing the composite between adherends, heating and pressurizing the composite for 5 minutes under the conditions of 200° C. and 10 MPa, and further heating the composite for 2 hours under the conditions of 200° C. and atmospheric pressure, is greater than 5 kV.

A multilayer ceramic capacitor include: a ceramic body including first and second surfaces opposing each other and third and fourth surfaces connecting the first and second surfaces; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed inside the ceramic body and exposed to the first and second surfaces, the plurality internal electrodes each having one end exposed to the third or fourth surface; and first and second side margin portions disposed on sides of the internal electrodes exposed to the first and second surfaces. A dielectric composition of the first and second side margin portions is different from a dielectric composition of the ceramic body, and a dielectric constant of the first and second side margin portions is lower than a dielectric constant of the ceramic body.

One aspect of the present invention is a composite including: a porous boron nitride sintered body; and a resin filled in pores of the boron nitride sintered body, wherein the boron nitride sintered body has an average pore diameter of 3.5 μm or less.

A dielectric composition and a multilayer capacitor including the same are provided. The dielectric composition includes a BaTiO.sub.3-base main component, a first subcomponent including an Nb component and a Gd component, a second subcomponent including an Mg component, and a third subcomponent including a Ba component and a Ca component. The first subcomponent is included in an amount of 4 moles or less per 100 moles of the main component. In the first subcomponent, a molar content of Nb and a molar content of Gd satisfy 0.33≤Nb/Gd, and in the third subcomponent, a molar content of Ba and a molar content of Ca satisfy 0.2≤Ca/(Ba+Ca).

A dielectric composition includes one of BaTiO.sub.3, (Ba,Ca) (Ti,Ca)O.sub.3, (Ba,Ca) (Ti,Zr)O.sub.3, Ba(Ti,Zr)O.sub.3 and (Ba,Ca) (Ti,Sn)O.sub.3, as a main component, a first subcomponent including a rare earth element, and a second subcomponent including at least one of a variable valence acceptor element and a fixed valence acceptor element. When a sum of contents of the rare earth element is defined as DT and a sum of contents of the variable valence acceptor element and the fixed valence acceptor element is defined as AT, (DT/AT)/(Ba+Ca) satisfies more than 0.5 and less than 6.0. In addition, a multilayer electronic component including the dielectric composition is provided.

A ceramic powder material which contains an LLZ-based garnet-type compound represented by Li.sub.7−3xAl.sub.xLa.sub.3Zr.sub.2O.sub.12 (where x satisfies 0≤x≤0.3) and in which a main phase of a crystal phase undergoes phase transition from a tetragonal phase to a cubic phase in the process of raising a temperature from 25° C. to 1050° C. and the main phase is the cubic phase even after the temperature is lowered to 25° C.

Provided is a method for producing a calcium carbonate sintered body whereby a good sintered body can be obtained without having to use any sintering aid. A method for producing a calcium carbonate sintered body includes the steps of: compacting calcium carbonate to make a green body; heating the green body under a condition of a temperature of 500° C. or lower to remove an organic component contained in the green body; and sintering the green body under conditions of a carbon dioxide atmosphere and a temperature of 450° C. or higher to obtain a calcium carbonate sintered body.

The invention relates to a scintillation material of rare earth orthosilicate doped with a strong electron-affinitive element and its preparation method and application thereof. The chemical formula of the scintillation material of rare earth orthosilicate doped with the strong electron-affinitive element is: RE.sub.2(1−x−y+δ/2)Ce.sub.2xM.sub.(2y−δ)Si.sub.(1−δ)M.sub.δO.sub.5. In the formula, RE is rare earth ions and M is strong electron-affinitive doping elements; the value of x is 0<x≤0.05, the value of y is 0<y≤0.015, and the value of δ is 0≤δ≤10−4; and M is selected from at least one of tungsten, lead, molybdenum, tellurium, antimony, bismuth, mercury, silver, nickel, indium, thallium, niobium, titanium, tantalum, tin, cadmium, technetium, zirconium, rhenium, and gallium Ga.

The present invention relates to a synthetic mineral composition. The present invention also relates to a method of forming a synthetic mineral composition. The present invention also relates to uses of a synthetic mineral composition.

The invention relates to a method for producing ceramics having piezoelectric properties in predominantly aqueous suspending agents.