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Ca₂RuO₄

Orthorhombic · space group Pbca (No. 61) · Pearson oP28

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Ca₂RuO₄ in Pbca

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.394 Å, b = 5.600 Å, c = 11.765 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
355.4 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
28 (Ru 4, Ca 8, O 16)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oP28 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 28 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Ru4Ru4a40.00000.00000.0000
Ca1Ca8c80.00420.05590.3524
O2O8c80.19610.30180.0264
O3O8c80.06730.47820.3355

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 28 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

A2B4C_oP28_61_c_2c_a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP28, then the space-group number 61, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ru: 4a; Ca: 8c; O: 8c; O: 8c). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Ca_{2-x}Sr_{x}RuO₄, Lu₂PdO₄, Na₂UO₄, Zn₂SiO₄ <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2B4C_oP28_61_c_2c_a-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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