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Al₁₇Mo₄
Monoclinic · space group C121 (No. 5) · Pearson mC84
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
Al₁₇Mo₄ in C121
SettingUnit 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
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al1 | Al | 2a | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.9620 | 0.0000 |
| Al2 | Al | 2b | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.8500 | 0.5000 |
| Al10 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.3043 | 0.3170 | 0.1199 |
| Al11 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.9797 | 0.3256 | 0.4503 |
| Al12 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.5456 | 0.9690 | 0.1453 |
| Al13 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.9541 | 0.3460 | 0.3563 |
| Al14 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.9696 | 0.8314 | 0.4062 |
| Al15 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.2893 | 0.8095 | 0.1631 |
| Al16 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.2471 | 0.3141 | 0.0231 |
| Al17 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.9290 | 0.8087 | 0.3021 |
| Al18 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.3824 | 0.7930 | 0.2546 |
| Al3 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.7516 | 0.5054 | 0.4775 |
| Al4 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.6959 | 0.4948 | 0.3796 |
| Al5 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.5149 | 0.9765 | 0.0499 |
| Al6 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.5690 | 0.4868 | 0.1958 |
| Al7 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.7023 | 0.0036 | 0.3354 |
| Al8 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.5360 | 0.4847 | 0.0939 |
| Al9 | Al | 4c | 4 | 0.6146 | 0.0190 | 0.2414 |
| Mo19 | Mo | 4c | 4 | 0.7252 | 0.0000 | 0.4296 |
| Mo20 | Mo | 4c | 4 | 0.2740 | 0.8059 | 0.0704 |
| Mo21 | Mo | 4c | 4 | 0.6777 | 0.5112 | 0.2905 |
| Mo22 | Mo | 4c | 4 | 0.3200 | 0.2915 | 0.2093 |
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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