Barium acetate, titanium ethoxide, and the acetates of calcium and magnesium and zirconium-n-propoxide as additives, were dissolved in an acetic acid methanol mixture. By adding water, this sol was converted to a gel.

Extended investigations of the calcination result in a crystalline barium tita-nate without other titanate phases, with a very small amount of carbonate and a negligible contents of free carbon. Aggregates could not be destroyed totally by the milling process. Therefore, the green density of the green bodies reaches only 60 to 65 %. Thus, a minimum sintering temperature of 1200° C was necessary to obtain a density of at least 95 %. In future work, a special treatment to destroy the aggregates must be developed to lower the sintering temperature.