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Phase I K₂SnCl₆ Cl₆K₂Sn

Monoclinic · space group P121/c1 (No. 14) · Pearson mP18

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Phase I K₂SnCl₆ in P121/c1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 9.988 Å, b = 7.013 Å, c = 12.223 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 144.93°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
492.0 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
18 (Sn 2, Cl 12, K 4)
Formula units Z
2
Pearson symbol
mP18 — monoclinic, primitive lattice, 18 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
4 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Sn5Sn2a20.00000.00000.0000
Cl1Cl4e40.25000.28900.7710
Cl2Cl4e40.20300.77100.7180
Cl3Cl4e40.28100.50100.5410
K4K4e40.74800.47500.0070

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 18 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

A6B2C_mP18_14_3e_e_a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mP18, then the space-group number 14, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Sn: 2a; Cl: 4e; Cl: 4e; Cl: 4e; K: 4e). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: Phase I.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A6B2C_mP18_14_3e_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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