A zirconia sintered body that includes a transparent zirconia portion and an opaque zirconia portion has a biaxial bending strength of 300 MPa or more. In addition, the opaque zirconia portion is configured by an opaque zirconia sintered body that is any one of a dark-colored zirconia sintered body, a medium-light-colored zirconia sintered body, and a light-colored zirconia sintered body.

In an aspect, an M-type ferrite, comprises oxides of Me, Me′, Me″, Co, Ti, and Fe; wherein Me is at least one of Ba, Sr, or Pb; Me′ is at least one of Ti, Zr, Ru, or Ir; and Me″ is at least one of Mg or Ca. In another aspect, a method of making an M-type ferrite comprises milling ferrite precursor compounds comprising oxides of at least Co, Fe, Ti, Me, Me′, and Me″, to form an oxide mixture; wherein Me comprises at least one of Ba, Sr, or Pb; Me′ is at least one of Ti, Zr, Ru, or Ir; and Me″ is at least one of Mg or Ca; and calcining the oxide mixture in an oxygen or air atmosphere to form the M-type ferrite.

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a ceramic molding, comprising the following steps: a) providing three or more ceramic powder layers that are arranged in layers, one on top of the other, to form a compression-molded element and sintering the compression-molded element obtained in step b) to form a ceramic molding, characterized in that the ceramic powder layers have different compositions, each ceramic powder layer comprising a mixture of at least two different base powders and each base powder containing at least 80 wt. % ZrO.sub.2 and at least 0.02 wt. % Al.sub.2O.sub.3, each weight amount being relative to the total weight of the constituents of the base powder.

The invention relates to a sintered molding with a color gradient for use in the manufacture of dental restorations, obtainable by sintering a compression-molded element comprising five or more different ceramic powder layers, each powder layer comprising at least two different base powders and each base powder containing at least 80 wt. % ZrO.sub.2, each weight amount being relative to the total weight of the base powder.

Provided is a ferrite sintered magnet including a main phase formed of ferrite having a hexagonal magnetoplumbite type crystalline structure, in which the main phase contains Fe and Co, and the ferrite sintered magnet contains CaB.sub.2O.sub.4. CaB.sub.2O.sub.4 is contained in a heterophase that is a crystalline phase different from the main phase, and an area ratio of CaB.sub.2O.sub.4 to the entire cross-sectional surface of a sintered magnet, is less than or equal to 2%.

A magnetic material which is likely to be cracked or chipped. The magnetic material is a magnetic material including ferrite particles and segregated particles containing Bi and Si, and characteristically, the magnetic material contains, as a main constituent, 46.0 mol % to 50.0 mol % Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, 0.4 mol % to 8.0 mol % CuO, 23.0 mol % to 32.0 mol % ZnO, and 18.0 mol % to 22.0 mol % NiO, and the ratio of the average particle size of the segregated particles to the average particle size of the ferrite particles is 0.04 or more and 0.19 or less (i.e., 0.04 to 0.19).

The electrochemical cell has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer. The cathode contains a perovskite oxide expressed by the general formula ABO.sub.3 and includes at least one of Sr and La at the A site as a main component. The solid electrolyte layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode includes a solid electrolyte layer-side region within 3 μm from a surface of the solid electrolyte layer side. The solid electrolyte layer-side region includes a main phase which is configured by the perovskite oxide and a second phase which is configured by Co.sub.3O.sub.4 and (Co, Fe).sub.3O.sub.4. An occupied surface area ratio of the second phase in a cross section of the solid electrolyte layer-side region is less than or equal to 10.5%.

The present invention provides a ferrite sintered magnet comprising (1) main phase grains containing a ferrite having a hexagonal structure, (2) two-grain boundaries formed between two of the main phase grains, and (3) multi-grain boundaries surrounded by three or more of the main phase grains. The above ferrite sintered magnet comprises Ca, R, Sr, Fe and Co, with R being at least one element selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements and Bi, and comprising at least La. The number Nm of the above main phase grains and the number Ng of the above multi-grain boundaries in the cross section including the direction of the easy magnetization axis of the above ferrite sintered magnet satisfy the formula (1A):
50%≤Nm/(Nm+Ng)≤65%  (1A).

A ferrite composition includes main-phase particles, first sub-phase particles, second sub-phase particles, and a grain boundary. At least 10% or more of the main-phase particles contain a portion whose Zn concentrations monotonously decrease from a particle surface toward a particle central part along a length of 50 nm or more. The first sub-phase particles contain Zn.sub.2SiO.sub.4. The second sub-phase particles contain SiO.sub.2. A total area ratio of the first sub-phase particles and the second sub-phase particles is 30.5% or more.

A ferrite magnet includes: a hexagonal ferrite main phase; and a second phase. The second phase is an oxide phase containing: an element A which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba, Bi, and rare earth elements; a transition metal element T including at least Fe; and an element G which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, B, F, K, Na, Li, P, and S. When the total number of atoms of the element A, the transition metal element T, and the element G in the second phase is set to 100 at %, the element A occupies 30 to 80 at %, the element G occupies 15 to 40 at %, and the transition metal element T occupies less than 4 at %.