“…In order to understand the mechanism of microwave firing and to consider the effect of praseodymium in a microwave field, measurements of dielectric properties at elevated temperatures were made on ceria, praseodymia and 10% praseodymia/ceria dried gels using the cavity perturbation method. 26,27 Samples were measured at 2.45 GHz from room temperature to 1400 uC at 100 uC intervals. The data were compared with the thermal behaviour of the samples as obtained by thermogravimetry (TG), and differential thermal analysis (DTA), in air at a heating rate of 20 uC min 21 , using simultaneous TG/DTA equipment (Netzsch, STA 409, Selb, Germany).…”