α-Ni₇S₆

Unit cell

Lattice constants

a = 3.274 Å, b = 11.359 Å, c = 16.157 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°

Cell volume

600.9 ų

Atoms in the conventional cell

56 (Ni 36, S 20)

Formula units Z

4

Pearson symbol

oC56 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 56 atoms per conventional cell

Symmetry operations

16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

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 56 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

A9B5_oC56_63_c4f_c2f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC56, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ni: 4c; S: 4c; Ni: 8f; Ni: 8f; Ni: 8f; Ni: 8f; S: 8f; S: 8f). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: α-Ni₇S₆.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A9B5_oC56_63_c4f_c2f-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.