This paper reports a method for producing -Al 2 O 3 at low temperature, which uses a seeding technique. White precipitate of aluminum hydroxide, which was prepared with a homogeneous precipitation method using aluminum nitrate and urea in aqueous solution, was peptized by using acetic acid at room temperature and then transformed to a transparent alumina sol. To the alumina sol -Al 2 O 3 particles were added as a seed, and then the sol containing -Al 2 O 3 particles was transformed to an -Al 2 O 3 -seeded alumina gel by drying the sol at room temperature. The nonseeded alumina gel was amorphous or fine crystallites even after being annealed at 600 ∘ C and was crystallized to -Al 2 O 3 at 700 ∘ C. The -Al 2 O 3 seeding promoted crystallization of alumina gel toAl 2 O 3 . The promotion of crystallization was made remarkable with a decrease in -Al 2 O 3 particle size and an increase in -Al 2 O 3 particle content in weight for the final seeded alumina gel. With an -Al 2 O 3 particle size of 150 nm and an -Al 2 O 3 particle content of 5%, the seeded alumina gel was partially crystallized to -Al 2 O 3 by annealing at a temperature as low as 700 ∘ C and mostly at 900 ∘ C.