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Monoclinic (I) Li₂FeSiO₄

Monoclinic · space group P1211 (No. 4) · Pearson mP32

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Monoclinic (I) Li₂FeSiO₄ in P1211

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 8.233 Å, b = 5.020 Å, c = 8.229 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 99.20°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
335.7 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
32 (Fe 4, Li 8, O 16, Si 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
mP32 — monoclinic, primitive lattice, 32 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
2 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Fe1Fe2a20.53710.08400.2883
Fe2Fe2a20.04510.18600.7952
Li3Li2a20.67000.09700.6700
Li4Li2a20.16100.17500.1730
Li5Li2a20.08800.60100.5820
Li6Li2a20.59300.67900.0830
O10O2a20.37510.56800.9234
O11O2a20.44220.18100.6860
O12O2a20.93770.11000.1780
O13O2a20.22780.02500.9644
O14O2a20.70660.26000.4606
O7O2a20.82640.08000.8583
O8O2a20.33100.16500.3742
O9O2a20.89800.67500.4293
Si15Si2a20.79390.19500.0438
Si16Si2a20.29040.07600.5389

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 32 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 2 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

AB2C4D_mP32_4_2a_4a_8a_2a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mP32, then the space-group number 4, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Fe: 2a; Fe: 2a; Li: 2a; Li: 2a; Li: 2a; Li: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; O: 2a; Si: 2a; Si: 2a). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: Monoclinic (I).

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB2C4D_mP32_4_2a_4a_8a_2a-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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