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CaFe₄O₆

Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC44

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

CaFe₄O₆ in Cmcm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 3.050 Å, b = 9.986 Å, c = 15.321 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
466.6 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
44 (O 24, Ca 4, Fe 16)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC44 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 44 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
O4O4a40.00000.00000.0000
Ca1Ca4c40.00000.15280.2500
O5O4c40.00000.82110.2500
Fe2Fe8f80.00000.36480.5446
Fe3Fe8f80.00000.09720.6371
O6O8f80.00000.27840.4220
O7O8f80.00000.54120.3451

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 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

AB4C6_oC44_63_c_2f_ac2f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC44, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (O: 4a; Ca: 4c; O: 4c; Fe: 8f; Fe: 8f; O: 8f; O: 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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Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB4C6_oC44_63_c_2f_ac2f-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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