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CoGeO₃
Monoclinic · space group C12/c1 (No. 15) · Pearson mC40
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
CoGeO₃ in C12/c1
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 9.659 Å, b = 8.988 Å, c = 11.811 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 154.57°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 440.2 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 40 (Co 8, Ge 8, O 24)
- Formula units Z
- 8
- Pearson symbol
- mC40 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 40 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 8 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Co1 | Co | 4e | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.6567 | 0.2500 |
| Co2 | Co | 4e | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.0186 | 0.2500 |
| Ge3 | Ge | 8f | 8 | 0.2655 | 0.8441 | 0.2144 |
| O4 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0039 | 0.8409 | 0.1357 |
| O5 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.5164 | 0.9945 | 0.3841 |
| O6 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0197 | 0.8179 | 0.9091 |
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 40 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
ABC3_mC40_15_2e_f_3f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC40, then the space-group number 15, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Co: 4e; Co: 4e; Ge: 8f; O: 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
MgGeO₃ <!--beginning with an
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry ABC3_mC40_15_2e_f_3f-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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