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Monoclinic Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ m = 3 Aurivillius Bi₄O₁₂Ti₃

Monoclinic · space group P1c1 (No. 7) · Pearson mP38

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Monoclinic Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ m = 3 Aurivillius in P1c1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 16.647 Å, b = 5.409 Å, c = 5.445 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 99.36°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
483.8 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
38 (Bi 8, O 24, Ti 6)
Formula units Z
2
Pearson symbol
mP38 — monoclinic, primitive lattice, 38 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
2 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Bi1Bi2a20.86620.75480.4386
Bi2Bi2a20.57740.73260.2943
Bi3Bi2a20.13380.74520.5723
Bi4Bi2a20.42260.76740.7169
O10O2a20.75230.04080.7355
O11O2a20.01540.03620.8679
O12O2a20.49980.00790.5286
O13O2a20.11850.31000.6537
O14O2a20.36320.20170.7441
O15O2a20.22370.97570.9117
O16O2a20.24570.45920.9823
O5O2a20.98460.51780.7995
O6O2a20.50020.49210.0288
O7O2a20.88150.19000.5353
O8O2a20.63680.29830.3809
O9O2a20.77630.52430.6881
Ti17Ti2a20.00000.25000.5454
Ti18Ti2a20.74360.25230.4303
Ti19Ti2a20.25640.24770.6867

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 38 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

A4B12C3_mP38_7_4a_12a_3a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mP38, then the space-group number 7, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Bi: 2a; Bi: 2a; Bi: 2a; Bi: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; Ti: 2a; Ti: 2a; Ti: 2a). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: m = 3 Aurivillius.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A4B12C3_mP38_7_4a_12a_3a-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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