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A silicon-titanium mixed oxide powder contains aggregates of primary particles selected from amorphous silicon dioxide particles, crystalline titanium dioxide particles, and silicon-titanium mixed oxide particles each having an amorphous silicon dioxide fraction and a crystalline titanium dioxide fraction. The silicon-titanium mixed oxide particles predominate in the powder. The powder exhibits a BET surface area of from 20 to 200 m.sup.2/g, and a titanium dioxide content in a range of from greater than 10 wt. % to less than 70 wt. %. An X-ray diffractogram of the powder exhibits the diffraction patterns of rutile and anatase, with a rutile/anatase ratio of from 2:98 to 98:2. The powder can be produced by vaporizing a silicon halide and a titanium halide at temperatures of less than 180.degree. C., performing combustion with hydrogen and air in a reaction chamber that is closed off from the earth's atmosphere, separating the solids from gaseous substances, and subsequently removing halide-containing substances from the solids to the greatest possible extent by treatment with steam at temperatures of from 250 to 700.degree. C. The powder can be used in toners.

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