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We have isolated a high-${T}_{c}$ phase in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system of composition ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{4}{(\mathrm{S}\mathrm{r},\mathrm{C}\mathrm{a})}_{6}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{4}{\mathrm{O}}_{16+x}$. The crystal substructure has a tetragonal unit cell $a=3.817$ \AA{}, $c=30.5$ \AA{}) with similarities to both the oxygen-defect perovskites $\mathrm{Y}{\mathrm{Ba}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{7\ensuremath{-}x}$ and the ${\mathrm{K}}_{2}$Ni${\mathrm{F}}_{4}$ structure of ${\mathrm{La}}_{2}$Cu${\mathrm{O}}_{4}$. The oxygen content, determined by titration and thermogravimetric analysis experiments, corresponds to a formal oxidation state Cu(2.15). Oxygen can be reversibly depleted in an argon ambient in an amount corresponding to the reduction of the Cu(III) into Cu(II). The compound has a metalliclike resistance above its ${T}_{c}$ near 85 K. Processing this precursor compound by heating to temperatures near its melting point (885 \ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}C) produces a sharp resistivity drop near 110 K that we show by ac susceptibility and Meissner effect is due to a superconducting transition.

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