| abstract |
The invention concerns a composition based on zirconium oxide in a weight proportion of at least 25%, and comprising between 15% and 60% of cerium oxide, between 10% and 25% of yttrium oxide, between 2% and 10% of lanthanum oxide and between 2% and 15% of another rare earth oxide. Additionally, it has, after calcination for 10 hours at 1150 DEG C, a specific surface of at least 15 m<2>/g as well as a cubic phase. It is obtained by forming a mixture comprising zirconium, cerium, yttrium, lanthanum and the additional rare earth, by precipitating said mixture with a base, heating in aqueous medium said precipitate, adding thereto a surfactant and calcining the precipitate. Said composition can be used as catalyst. |