Eyring block metals

When Professor L. Eyring and I wrote an article on the structural principles of fluorite-related rare earth higher oxides, I asked him where he wanted to publish it, and he said the Australian Journal of Chemistry. I asked why He said that it was quite possible that one or more of the reviewers would be Professors Bevan or Martin or Hyde because they are experts on these structures, and we needed their comments on the new principles. After almost one year he received the comments of the reviewer of this paper. LeRoy carefully answered all of the questions. Einally the article was published in 1996. However, he was still concerned that the new principles had not gone under a rigorous scientific review. It was not until 2004 when I showed him the paper by S.V. Krivovichev, who extended our fluorite-type model to all of the known structures formed by a metal tetrahedron with an oxygen ion in the center as the building block. He smiled with confidence. 

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