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P₄Se₃

Orthorhombic · space group Pnma (No. 62) · Pearson oP112

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

P₄Se₃ in Pnma

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 11.797 Å, b = 9.739 Å, c = 26.270 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
3018.2 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
112 (P 64, Se 48)
Formula units Z
16
Pearson symbol
oP112 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 112 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
P1P4c40.08600.25000.6270
P2P4c40.04100.25000.5000
P3P4c40.96600.25000.2820
P4P4c40.23800.25000.3310
P5P4c40.95200.25000.8250
P6P4c40.23900.25000.8070
P7P4c40.19200.25000.1040
P8P4c40.96800.25000.0150
Se13Se4c40.94300.25000.5710
Se14Se4c40.14800.25000.2567
Se15Se4c40.10700.25000.8700
Se16Se4c40.16300.25000.0178
P10P8d80.03400.63400.6443
P11P8d80.99000.13400.7527
P12P8d80.96100.63400.8663
P9P8d80.22700.13400.5875
Se17Se8d80.15920.07200.5139
Se18Se8d80.85270.57200.6298
Se19Se8d80.17230.07200.7612
Se20Se8d80.06020.57200.9355

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 112 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

A4B3_oP112_62_8c4d_4c4d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP112, then the space-group number 62, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; Se: 4c; Se: 4c; Se: 4c; Se: 4c; P: 8d; P: 8d; P: 8d; P: 8d; Se: 8d; Se: 8d; Se: 8d; Se: 8d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A4B3_oP112_62_8c4d_4c4d-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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