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Au₂V

Orthorhombic · space group Amm2 (No. 38) · Pearson oC12

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Au₂V in Amm2

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 4.684 Å, b = 8.482 Å, c = 4.810 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
191.1 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
12 (V 4, Au 8)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC12 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 12 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
V3V2a20.00000.00000.9400
V4V2b20.50000.00000.5000
Au1Au4d40.00000.33000.9400
Au2Au4e40.50000.32500.5000

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 12 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

A2B_oC12_38_de_ab-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC12, then the space-group number 38, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (V: 2a; V: 2b; Au: 4d; Au: 4e). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Cu₂Ti, Pt₂Ta <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2B_oC12_38_de_ab-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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