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Rynersonite (Orthorhombic CaTa₂O₆)

Orthorhombic · space group Pnma (No. 62) · Pearson oP36 · mineral: rynersonite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Rynersonite (Orthorhombic CaTa₂O₆) in Pnma

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 11.068 Å, b = 7.505 Å, c = 5.378 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
446.7 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
36 (Ca 4, O 24, Ta 8)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oP36 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 36 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Ca1Ca4c40.04200.25000.5400
O2O4c40.14600.25000.9670
O3O4c40.87800.25000.8380
O4O8d80.97600.03500.2250
O5O8d80.21300.04900.3830
Ta6Ta8d80.14120.99440.0376

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 36 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 8 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

AB6C2_oP36_62_c_2c2d_d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP36, then the space-group number 62, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ca: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; O: 8d; O: 8d; Ta: 8d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

Ca(TaTi)O₆, CaTa₂O₆, EuTa₂O₆, GdTa₂O₆, GdTi₂O₆, La(NbTi)O₆, LaTa₂O₆, LaTi₂O₆, Nd(TaTi)O₆, Pr(TaTi)O₆, SrNb₂O₆, Tb(TaTi)O₆, YTa₂O₆, (Sr_{0.7}La_{0.3})Nb₂O₆ <!--beginning with an

Note: Rynersonite.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB6C2_oP36_62_c_2c2d_d-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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