| abstract |
A ceramic material powder comprised of main ingredient particles formed by barium titanate having on their surfaces a covering layer comprised of a secondary ingredient additive, wherein when an average radius of the main ingredient particles is "r" and an average radius of the covering layer is "Deltar", the Deltar is controlled to a range of 0015r to 0.055r, thereby enabling acquisition of a multilayer ceramic capacitor or other electronic device satisfying both the X7R characteristic prescribed in the EIAJ standard and B characteristic prescribed in the Japan Industrial Standard (JIS), that is, excellent in temperature stability of the electrostatic capacity, having a good insulation resistance value, relative dielectric constant, or other characteristics, and having a long accelerated life of the insulation resistance. |