“…According to the group theory, the normal and inverse cubic spinel should have four IR bands representing the four fundamentals ( 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 ) [33]. It has been reported that, the first three IR fundamental bands are due to tetrahedral and octahedral complexes, while the fourth one is due to the lattice vibrations [32]. Table 1, where the high frequency bands 1 (about 570) and 2 (393-397) are attributed to the vibrations of iron ions in both tetrahedral and octahedral positions respectively.…”