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KH₂PO₄ (H2₂)

Tetragonal · space group I-42d (No. 122) · Pearson tI40 · Strukturbericht H22

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

KH₂PO₄ (H2₂) in I-42d

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 7.426 Å, b = 7.426 Å, c = 6.931 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
382.3 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
40 (K 4, P 4, H 16, O 16)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
tI40 — tetragonal, body-centred lattice, 40 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
K2K4a40.00000.00000.0000
P4P4b40.00000.00000.5000
H1H16e160.77290.64870.8727
O3O16e160.91720.64930.8768

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 40 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 16 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

A4BC4D_tI40_122_e_b_e_a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol tI40, then the space-group number 122, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (K: 4a; P: 4b; H: 16e; O: 16e). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

RbH₂PO₄, KH₂AsO₄, RbH₂AsO₄, CsH₂AsO₄, NH₄H₂PO₄, NH₄H₂AsO₄ <!--beginning with an

Note: H2₂.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A4BC4D_tI40_122_e_b_e_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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