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Al₁₇Mo₄

Monoclinic · space group C121 (No. 5) · Pearson mC84

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Al₁₇Mo₄ in C121

Setting
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x = 0.10, y = 0.17, z = 0.08

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 9.158 Å, b = 4.932 Å, c = 31.353 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 113.57°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
1298.0 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
84 (Al 68, Mo 16)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
mC84 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 84 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
4 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Al1Al2a20.00000.96200.0000
Al2Al2b20.00000.85000.5000
Al10Al4c40.30430.31700.1199
Al11Al4c40.97970.32560.4503
Al12Al4c40.54560.96900.1453
Al13Al4c40.95410.34600.3563
Al14Al4c40.96960.83140.4062
Al15Al4c40.28930.80950.1631
Al16Al4c40.24710.31410.0231
Al17Al4c40.92900.80870.3021
Al18Al4c40.38240.79300.2546
Al3Al4c40.75160.50540.4775
Al4Al4c40.69590.49480.3796
Al5Al4c40.51490.97650.0499
Al6Al4c40.56900.48680.1958
Al7Al4c40.70230.00360.3354
Al8Al4c40.53600.48470.0939
Al9Al4c40.61460.01900.2414
Mo19Mo4c40.72520.00000.4296
Mo20Mo4c40.27400.80590.0704
Mo21Mo4c40.67770.51120.2905
Mo22Mo4c40.32000.29150.2093

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 84 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 4 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

A17B4_mC84_5_ab16c_4c-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC84, then the space-group number 5, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Al: 2a; Al: 2b; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Al: 4c; Mo: 4c; Mo: 4c; Mo: 4c; Mo: 4c). 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 A17B4_mC84_5_ab16c_4c-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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