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Nb₂Pd₃Se₈

Orthorhombic · space group Pbam (No. 55) · Pearson oP26

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Nb₂Pd₃Se₈ in Pbam

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 15.074 Å, b = 10.573 Å, c = 3.547 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
565.3 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
26 (Pd 6, Se 16, Nb 4)
Formula units Z
2
Pearson symbol
oP26 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 26 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Pd2Pd2a20.00000.00000.0000
Pd3Pd4g40.21620.38120.0000
Se4Se4g40.98890.23190.0000
Se5Se4g40.15730.04390.0000
Nb1Nb4h40.11590.21530.5000
Se6Se4h40.28330.25030.5000
Se7Se4h40.11560.45740.5000

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 26 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

A2B3C8_oP26_55_h_ag_2g2h-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP26, then the space-group number 55, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Pd: 2a; Pd: 4g; Se: 4g; Se: 4g; Nb: 4h; Se: 4h; Se: 4h). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

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Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2B3C8_oP26_55_h_ag_2g2h-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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