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Rb₂CaCu₆(PO₄)₄O₂
Monoclinic · space group C121 (No. 5) · Pearson mC62
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
Rb₂CaCu₆(PO₄)₄O₂ in C121
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 16.891 Å, b = 5.641 Å, c = 19.352 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 154.47°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 794.6 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 62 (Cu 12, Ca 2, O 36, P 8, Rb 4)
- Formula units Z
- 2
- Pearson symbol
- mC62 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 62 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 4 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cu2 | Cu | 2a | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.4211 | 0.0000 |
| Cu3 | Cu | 2a | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.9130 | 0.0000 |
| Ca1 | Ca | 2b | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.6753 | 0.5000 |
| Cu4 | Cu | 4c | 4 | 0.7059 | 0.2418 | 0.0273 |
| Cu5 | Cu | 4c | 4 | 0.1904 | 0.6822 | 0.2744 |
| O10 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.9001 | 0.9565 | 0.3429 |
| O11 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.1426 | 0.2838 | 0.5248 |
| O12 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.8505 | 0.3504 | 0.0619 |
| O13 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.0038 | 0.9485 | 0.1784 |
| O14 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.1909 | 0.3236 | 0.3047 |
| O6 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.9184 | 0.2304 | 0.2549 |
| O7 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.9561 | 0.1756 | 0.0323 |
| O8 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.9762 | 0.6655 | 0.0492 |
| O9 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.8182 | 0.3856 | 0.2946 |
| P15 | P | 4c | 4 | 0.0034 | 0.2009 | 0.1482 |
| P16 | P | 4c | 4 | 0.9416 | 0.2069 | 0.3517 |
| Rb17 | Rb | 4c | 4 | 0.0524 | 0.7062 | 0.3425 |
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 62 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 4 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
AB6C18D4E2_mC62_5_b_2a2c_9c_2c_c-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC62, then the space-group number 5, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cu: 2a; Cu: 2a; Ca: 2b; Cu: 4c; Cu: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; P: 4c; P: 4c; Rb: 4c). 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 AB6C18D4E2_mC62_5_b_2a2c_9c_2c_c-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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