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CaFe₄O₆
Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC44
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
CaFe₄O₆ in Cmcm
SettingUnit 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
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O4 | O | 4a | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Ca1 | Ca | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.1528 | 0.2500 |
| O5 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.8211 | 0.2500 |
| Fe2 | Fe | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.3648 | 0.5446 |
| Fe3 | Fe | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.0972 | 0.6371 |
| O6 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.2784 | 0.4220 |
| O7 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.5412 | 0.3451 |
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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