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Brownmillerite (Srebrodolskite) Brownmillerite (Ca₂Fe₂O₅)

Orthorhombic · space group Pnma (No. 62) · Pearson oP36 · mineral: brownmillerite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Brownmillerite (Srebrodolskite) Brownmillerite (Ca₂Fe₂O₅) in Pnma

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.426 Å, b = 14.766 Å, c = 5.597 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
448.4 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
36 (Fe 8, O 20, Ca 8)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oP36 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 36 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Fe1Fe4a40.00000.00000.0000
Fe2Fe4c40.94470.25000.9326
O3O4c40.59830.25000.8790
Ca4Ca8d80.48040.10880.0232
O5O8d80.26040.98270.2387
O6O8d80.02550.14380.0784

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 36 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

A2B2C5_oP36_62_d_ac_c2d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP36, then the space-group number 62, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Fe: 4a; Fe: 4c; O: 4c; Ca: 8d; O: 8d; O: 8d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Ca₂Al₂O₅, Sr₂Co₂O₅, Sr₂Fe₂O₅ <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2B2C5_oP36_62_d_ac_c2d-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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