The isothermal permeation of oxygen through CaO-ZrO~ was studied at 960~176 and oxygen pressures P'o2 of 10 -:' to 1 atm on one side of the permeation cell and P"o~ of 10-~-10 -4 arm on the other. In the steady state, the permeating flux was directly proportional to (p,o.,n _ p,,o.,,,,), where n varied from 2.5 to 4.0. The value of n depended on the microstructure of the sample. For sample~ withou~ micropores, a value of n = 4 was found. These samples also contained a second phase whose composition depended on the nature and extent of impurities. For samples with nonconnected micropores, n varied from 3.6 to 2.5, depending on the thickness, and the results were consistent with a mechanism in which permeation is limited partly by diffusion within the solid and partly by a surface reaction. Both the bulk and surface processes have activation energies of about 200 kJ-mol-'.