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Sm₂SCl₄

Monoclinic · space group C12/c1 (No. 15) · Pearson mC28

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Sm₂SCl₄ in C12/c1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 15.198 Å, b = 6.394 Å, c = 7.022 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 98.06°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
675.6 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
28 (S 4, Cl 16, Sm 8)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
mC28 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 28 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
S3S4e40.0000-0.06640.2500
Cl1Cl8f80.2205-0.08110.3193
Cl2Cl8f80.41130.89360.0752
Sm4Sm8f80.10750.20740.0780

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 28 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

A4BC2_mC28_15_2f_e_f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC28, then the space-group number 15, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (S: 4e; Cl: 8f; Cl: 8f; Sm: 8f). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

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Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A4BC2_mC28_15_2f_e_f-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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