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Bi₅Nb₃O₁₅

Orthorhombic · space group Pnc2 (No. 30) · Pearson oP46

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Bi₅Nb₃O₁₅ in Pnc2

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 21.011 Å, b = 5.473 Å, c = 5.463 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
628.2 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
46 (Bi 10, O 30, Nb 6)
Formula units Z
2
Pearson symbol
oP46 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 46 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
4 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Bi1Bi2a20.00000.00000.5000
O6O2a20.00000.00000.8930
Nb4Nb2b20.50000.00000.4770
Bi2Bi4c40.75580.98700.4810
Bi3Bi4c40.63250.47400.4840
Nb5Nb4c40.89260.49700.4800
O10O4c40.58700.98000.3950
O11O4c40.49500.78200.1900
O12O4c40.69500.73700.2290
O13O4c40.69500.25200.2110
O7O4c40.80510.45000.4260
O8O4c40.90300.81300.2800
O9O4c40.91560.24600.2340

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 46 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 4 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

A5B3C15_oP46_30_a2c_bc_a7c-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP46, then the space-group number 30, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Bi: 2a; O: 2a; Nb: 2b; Bi: 4c; Bi: 4c; Nb: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c). 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 A5B3C15_oP46_30_a2c_bc_a7c-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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