“…For this purpose, an AgNO 3 /WO 3 mixture was heated in air at 623 K for 12 h, and next at 773 K for 2 Â 12 h in order to complete the reaction according to the following equation: The final product was characterized by a powder XRD method as orthorhombic silver tungstate, Ag 2 WO 4 , with Pn2n symmetry [46]. Polycrystalline samples of rare earth metal tungstates, RE 2 (WO 4 ) 3 (RE ¼ Y, Gd) were obtained by annealing of RE 2 O 3 with WO 3 mixed in the 1:3 molar ratio and in the thermal conditions that were set out earlier [47][48][49]. The lowtemperature polymorphs of AgY 1 À x Gd x (WO 4 ) 2 solid solutions (where x=0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 and 1) were successfully prepared by high-temperature solid-state reaction using Ag 2 WO 4 , Y 2 (WO 4 ) 3 and Gd 2 (WO 4 ) 3 .…”