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Pinalite (Pb₃WO₅Cl₂)

Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC44 · mineral: pinalite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Pinalite (Pb₃WO₅Cl₂) in Cmcm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.617 Å, b = 13.067 Å, c = 11.073 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
812.7 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
44 (Cl 8, O 20, Pb 12, W 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC44 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 44 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Cl1Cl4a40.00000.00000.0000
Cl2Cl4c40.00000.52500.2500
O3O4c40.00000.89500.2500
Pb5Pb4c40.00000.09980.2500
W7W4c40.00000.76500.2500
Pb6Pb8f80.00000.34890.0322
O4O16h160.73200.77000.8680

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 44 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 16 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

A2B5C3D_oC44_63_ac_ch_cf_c-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC44, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cl: 4a; Cl: 4c; O: 4c; Pb: 4c; W: 4c; Pb: 8f; O: 16h). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Ba₃ReO₅Cl₂, Sr₃ReO₅Cl₂ <!--beginning with an

Note: pinalite.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2B5C3D_oC44_63_ac_ch_cf_c-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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