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A method of producing a mesoporous silica material, including reacting, with stirring, a liquid mixture containing a tetraalkyl orthosilicate, a linear alkylamine, an inorganic acid and water, and drying and thermally treating the thus obtained solid product, wherein the amounts of the inorganic acid, alkylamine and water are 0.05-0.6 mol, 0.2-1.0 mol and 10-100 mol, respectively, per mol of the tetraalkyl orthosilicate. Mesoporous silica hard spheres having an average pore diameter of 1.5-4 nm and a volume average diameter of 40-80 &mgr;m. The mesoporous silica hard spheres may contain metal components other than silica.

Silica mesoporous body and process for preparing same

A titanium-containing porous silica having a molecular sieve framework in which more than 3 mole % but not more than 25 mole % of silicon ions are isomorphously substituted by titanium ions. The porous silica may be obtained by gradually adding a liquid containing water and an alkylamine to a mixture containing a silicon alkoxide and a titanium alkoxide with stirring to hydrolyze the silicon alkoxide and the titanium alkoxide and to obtain a gel. The gel is then dried and calcined to obtain the titanium-containing porous silica.

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