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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

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

Unit 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

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Cu2Cu2a20.00000.42110.0000
Cu3Cu2a20.00000.91300.0000
Ca1Ca2b20.00000.67530.5000
Cu4Cu4c40.70590.24180.0273
Cu5Cu4c40.19040.68220.2744
O10O4c40.90010.95650.3429
O11O4c40.14260.28380.5248
O12O4c40.85050.35040.0619
O13O4c40.00380.94850.1784
O14O4c40.19090.32360.3047
O6O4c40.91840.23040.2549
O7O4c40.95610.17560.0323
O8O4c40.97620.66550.0492
O9O4c40.81820.38560.2946
P15P4c40.00340.20090.1482
P16P4c40.94160.20690.3517
Rb17Rb4c40.05240.70620.3425

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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