Process for the preparation of a pyrogenic silicon-titanium mixed oxide powder having - a BET surface area is 200 to 400 m 2 /g, - a silicon dioxide content of 97.0 ± 1.5% by weight, - a titanium dioxide content of 3.5 ± 1.0% by weight and - the sum of silicon dioxide content and titanium dioxide content is greater than 99.7% by weight, all percentages by weight relating to the total amount of the powder, in which - 97.0 ± 1.5 parts by weight calculated as SiO 2 of silicon halide and 3.5 ± 1.5 parts by weight calculated as TiO 2 of titanium halide are evaporated, the vapours are taken to a mixing chamber, - hydrogen and primary air are taken to the mixing chamber separately therefrom, - the mixture of the vapours of silicon halide and titanium halide, hydrogen-containing combustible gas and primary air is subsequently ignited in a burner and the flame is burned into a reaction chamber, - secondary air is additionally introduced into the reaction chamber, the solid is subsequently separated from gaseous substances, and - the solid is subsequently freed as far as possible from halide-containing substances by treatment with steam at temperatures of 250 to 700°C characterized in that - the amount of the required substances consisting of silicon chloride, titanium chloride, combustible gas, primary air and secondary air being chosen such that an adiabatic flame temperature T ad results, for which the following is true: 900 °C < T ad < 1200 °C, with T ad = temperature of required substances + sum of the reaction enthalpies of the partial reactions/heat capacity of the substances which leave the reaction chamber, comprising silicon dioxide, water, hydrogen chloride, if appropriate carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, and if appropriate of the carrier gas if this is not air or nitrogen, the specific heat capacity of these substances at 1000°C being used as a basis. - a BET surface area is 200 to 400 m 2 /g, - a silicon dioxide content of 97.0 ± 1.5% by weight, - a titanium dioxide content of 3.5 ± 1.0% by weight and - the sum of silicon dioxide content and titanium dioxide content is greater than 99.7% by weight, - 97.0 ± 1.5 parts by weight calculated as SiO 2 of silicon halide and 3.5 ± 1.5 parts by weight calculated as TiO 2 of titanium halide are evaporated, the vapours are taken to a mixing chamber, - hydrogen and primary air are taken to the mixing chamber separately therefrom, - the mixture of the vapours of silicon halide and titanium halide, hydrogen-containing combustible gas and primary air is subsequently ignited in a burner and the flame is burned into a reaction chamber, - secondary air is additionally introduced into the reaction chamber, the solid is subsequently separated from gaseous substances, and - the solid is subsequently freed as far as possible from halide-containing substances by treatment with steam at temperatures of 250 to 700°C - the amount of the required substances consisting of silicon chloride, titanium chloride, combustible gas, primary air and secondary air being chosen such that an adiabatic flame temperature T ad results, for which the following is true: 900 °C < T ad < 1200 °C, with T ad = temperature of required substances + sum of the reaction enthalpies of the partial reactions/heat capacity of the substances which leave the reaction chamber, comprising silicon dioxide, water, hydrogen chloride, if appropriate carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, and if appropriate of the carrier gas if this is not air or nitrogen, the specific heat capacity of these substances at 1000°C being used as a basis.