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NiBi
Monoclinic · space group C12/m1 (No. 12) · Pearson mC66
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
NiBi in C12/m1
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 14.124 Å, b = 8.162 Å, c = 12.832 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 123.39°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 1235.2 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 66 (Ni 34, Bi 32)
- Formula units Z
- 2
- Pearson symbol
- mC66 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 66 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 8 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ni7 | Ni | 2a | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Ni8 | Ni | 4e | 4 | 0.2500 | 0.2500 | 0.0000 |
| Ni9 | Ni | 4h | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.7558 | 0.5000 |
| Bi1 | Bi | 4i | 4 | 0.4128 | 0.0000 | 0.1260 |
| Bi2 | Bi | 4i | 4 | 0.8960 | 0.0000 | 0.1267 |
| Bi3 | Bi | 4i | 4 | 0.8471 | 0.0000 | 0.3763 |
| Bi4 | Bi | 4i | 4 | 0.3544 | 0.0000 | 0.3775 |
| Ni10 | Ni | 4i | 4 | 0.1255 | 0.0000 | 0.2472 |
| Ni11 | Ni | 4i | 4 | 0.2454 | 0.0000 | 0.4958 |
| Ni12 | Ni | 4i | 4 | 0.2286 | 0.0000 | 0.1238 |
| Ni13 | Ni | 4i | 4 | 0.0191 | 0.0000 | 0.3714 |
| Bi5 | Bi | 8j | 8 | 0.1378 | 0.2741 | 0.1248 |
| Bi6 | Bi | 8j | 8 | 0.1084 | 0.7401 | 0.3746 |
| Ni14 | Ni | 8j | 8 | 0.8744 | 0.7454 | 0.2500 |
The multiplicity and the Wyckoff letter say how many copies of the site the group makes in one cell and on which kind of symmetry element the site sits; the 66 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 8 operations. Press Wyckoff under Colour to see the sites, and tick a symmetry element on the left to see which atoms lie on it.
How to read the label
A16B17_mC66_12_4i2j_aeh4ij-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC66, then the space-group number 12, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ni: 2a; Ni: 4e; Ni: 4h; Bi: 4i; Bi: 4i; Bi: 4i; Bi: 4i; Ni: 4i; Ni: 4i; Ni: 4i; Ni: 4i; Bi: 8j; Bi: 8j; Ni: 8j). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A16B17_mC66_12_4i2j_aeh4ij-001 (M. J. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136, S1 (2017); D. Hicks et al., ibid. 161, S1 (2019) and 199, 110450 (2021); S. Eckert et al., ibid. 240, 112988 (2024)). Symmetry elements, Wyckoff assignment and the diagram are computed on this page from the group operations.
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