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It is shown that the principal topotaxial relationship between hematite α-Fe2O3 and magnetite Fe3O4 during cycles of reduction and oxidation can be considered as crystallographically reversible. The precision of the mutual orientation of the two lattices decreases as the number of cycles of reduction and oxidation increases and there is a correlation between crystallographic orientation and the rate of oxidation and of reduction.