“…Some authors indicate that an adequate preform must meet specific requirements; for instance, it must withstand high temperatures, preserve its form throughout the entire process, be easily removable at the end of the process to generate a porous structure, and be unreactive to the metal matrix. Different kinds of materials have been used as preforms in space holder processes (Fernández et al, 2008): polymeric particles (Ma et al,1999;Shimizu et al, 2012), soft ceramics (Berchem et al, 2002), and carbamide particles (Bakan, 2006;Jiang et al, 2005). Other authors have used carbonates and fluorides such as K 2 CO 3 (Zhao et al, 2005), NH 4 HCO 3 (Mondal et al, 2015), NaF (San Marchi et al, 2003), SrF 2 and BaF 2 (Brothers et al, 2005).…”