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CaFe₅O₇
Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC52
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
CaFe₅O₇ in Cmcm
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 3.052 Å, b = 10.041 Å, c = 17.966 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 550.6 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 52 (Fe 20, Ca 4, O 28)
- Formula units Z
- 4
- Pearson symbol
- oC52 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 52 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 16 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fe2 | Fe | 4a | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Ca1 | Ca | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.7876 | 0.2500 |
| O5 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.4590 | 0.2500 |
| Fe3 | Fe | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.2735 | 0.0749 |
| Fe4 | Fe | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.4363 | 0.8462 |
| O6 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.9110 | 0.3940 |
| O7 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.1720 | 0.3320 |
| O8 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.6430 | 0.4680 |
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 52 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
AB5C7_oC52_63_c_a2f_c3f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC52, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Fe: 4a; Ca: 4c; O: 4c; Fe: 8f; Fe: 8f; O: 8f; O: 8f; O: 8f). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB5C7_oC52_63_c_a2f_c3f-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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