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Ca₃UO₆
Monoclinic · space group P1211 (No. 4) · Pearson mP20
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
Ca₃UO₆ in P1211
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 5.728 Å, b = 5.956 Å, c = 8.298 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.57°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 283.1 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 20 (Ca 6, O 12, U 2)
- Formula units Z
- 2
- Pearson symbol
- mP20 — monoclinic, primitive lattice, 20 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 2 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ca1 | Ca | 2a | 2 | 0.7379 | 0.9975 | 0.2512 |
| Ca2 | Ca | 2a | 2 | 0.7277 | 0.4223 | 0.9877 |
| Ca3 | Ca | 2a | 2 | 0.2468 | 0.0288 | 0.5239 |
| O4 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.3681 | 0.4100 | 0.4827 |
| O5 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.4395 | 0.1618 | 0.8062 |
| O6 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.9253 | 0.2744 | 0.6677 |
| O7 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.8835 | 0.0484 | 0.9848 |
| O8 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.9673 | 0.3053 | 0.3058 |
| O9 | O | 2a | 2 | 0.4260 | 0.1963 | 0.1748 |
| U10 | U | 2a | 2 | 0.7541 | 0.0000 | 0.7481 |
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 20 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 2 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
A3B6C_mP20_4_3a_6a_a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mP20, then the space-group number 4, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ca: 2a; Ca: 2a; Ca: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; U: 2a). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.
Other compounds with this structure
Sr₃UO₆ <!--beginning with an
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A3B6C_mP20_4_3a_6a_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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