Method for oxygenating oxide superconductive materials

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505480, 505482, 505742, H01L 3924, B05D 512

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention includes a method of oxygenating an oxide superconductive material having an initial oxygen content, the method comprising the steps: (a) obtaining an oxide superconductive material, the material having an initial oxygen content; and (b) placing the oxide superconductive material in contact an oxygen-containing media having an oxygen chemical potential greater than that of pure diatomic oxygen at 1 atmosphere pressure and at 300.degree. C., and raising the temperature of the oxide superconductive material to a temperature above about 400.degree. C., and maintaining the oxide superconductive material at the temperature and under the chemical potential of oxygen for sufficient time so as to alter the oxygen content of the oxide superconductive material from the initial oxygen content.

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