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α-Zn₂V₂O₇ O₇V₂Zn₂

Monoclinic · space group C12/c1 (No. 15) · Pearson mC44

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

α-Zn₂V₂O₇ in C12/c1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 7.429 Å, b = 8.340 Å, c = 14.554 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 139.75°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
582.6 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
44 (O 28, V 8, Zn 8)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
mC44 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 44 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
O1O4e40.00000.81120.2500
O2O8f80.51040.73110.3620
O3O8f80.09960.90410.1056
O4O8f80.51690.08530.1138
V5V8f80.15740.75490.2058
Zn6Zn8f80.72000.57390.5195

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 44 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

A7B2C2_mC44_15_e3f_f_f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC44, then the space-group number 15, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (O: 4e; O: 8f; O: 8f; O: 8f; V: 8f; Zn: 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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Note: α-Zn₂V₂O₇.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A7B2C2_mC44_15_e3f_f_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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