“…Beyerlein and co-workers (Beyerlein et al, 1984) reported that the analogous lead-ruthenium pyrochlore is non-stoichiometric and displays oxygen vacancy ordering, the stoichiometry actually being Pb 2 Ru 2 O 6.5 and the resulting space group being F43m, rather than Fd3m as seen in Bi 2 Ru 2 O 7-d (Beyerlein et al, 1984;Facer et al, 1993;Avdeev et al, 2002). The iridium pyrochlore Pb 2 Ir 2 O 6.5 (Kennedy, 1996) exhibits similar vacancy ordering and its structure is also described in F43m however this vacancy ordered structure was not seen in Pb 2 Re 2 O 7-d (Abakumov et al, 1998). It is generally believed that Re is a suitable, non-radioactive, analogue for Tc.…”