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The magnetic and electric properties of the vanadate PrVO3 with the GdFeO3 -type orthorhombic structure are reported. The temperature-dependent magnetization displays an obvious irreversibility under zero-field cooling (ZFC) and field cooling (FC), and two magnetic phase-transition temperatures 20 K and 90 K, which may correspond to the spin reorientation and the magnetic ordering, respectively. A canted antiferromagnetic configuration is derived from the low spontaneous magnetization at 5 K. In the sintered bulk, a high coercivity 2.4 T is due to the pinning of the domain wall. The resistance measurement shows that the compound is an insulator at low temperatures.

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