“…Lead can substitute for calcium in the HA structure over the whole range of composition causing an enlargement of the unit cell. Although in earlier papers (Muller, 1947;Narasaraju, Singh & Rao, 1972;Rao, 1976) the lattice parameters of lead-calcium hydroxyapatite were reported to vary linearly with the composition, more recently deviations of the c parameter from Vegard's law have been observed (Engel, Krieg & Reif, 1975;Verbeeck, Lassuyt, Heijligers, Driessens & Vrolijk, 1981; Andres-Verges, Higes-Rolando, Valenzuela-Calahorro & GonzaJez-Diaz, 1983). The observed deviations from Vegard's law have been attributed to a possible preference of the Pb 2+ ion for site (2) of the apatite structure, on the basis of the cation distribution deduced from the relative intensities of suitable reflections in the powder diffractogram Furthermore, the structure analysis of a sample of Pb9(PO4) 6 prepared by hydrothermal reaction (Hata, Marumo, Iwai & Aoki, 1980) revealed a deficiency of lead in site (1).…”