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α-KHo₂F₇ F₇Ho₂K

Monoclinic · space group C12/m1 (No. 12) · Pearson mC80

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

α-KHo₂F₇ in C12/m1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 14.287 Å, b = 8.004 Å, c = 11.950 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 125.33°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
1114.9 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
80 (F 56, Ho 16, K 8)
Formula units Z
8
Pearson symbol
mC80 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 80 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
F1F4g40.00000.82130.0000
Ho11Ho4h40.00000.74080.5000
F2F4i40.89550.00000.7494
F3F4i40.39540.00000.4257
F4F4i40.88670.00000.1179
F5F4i40.49560.00000.7632
F6F4i40.89510.00000.4128
Ho12Ho4i40.75950.00000.1784
K14K4i40.23380.00000.1526
K15K4i40.26210.00000.5195
F7F8j80.10180.23480.4160
F8F8j80.11700.23610.7369
F9F8j80.16320.33310.9999
F10F8j80.17420.32940.2405
Ho13Ho8j80.02370.76280.1819

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 80 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

A7B2C_mC80_12_g5i4j_hij_2i-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC80, then the space-group number 12, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (F: 4g; Ho: 4h; F: 4i; F: 4i; F: 4i; F: 4i; F: 4i; Ho: 4i; K: 4i; K: 4i; F: 8j; F: 8j; F: 8j; F: 8j; Ho: 8j). 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 A7B2C_mC80_12_g5i4j_hij_2i-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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