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V₃AsC

Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC20

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

V₃AsC in Cmcm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 3.128 Å, b = 10.140 Å, c = 7.699 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
244.2 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
20 (C 4, As 4, V 12)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC20 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 20 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
C2C4a40.00000.00000.0000
As1As4c40.00000.25600.2500
V3V4c40.00000.95200.2500
V4V8f80.00000.62830.0520

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 20 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

ABC3_oC20_63_c_a_cf-003: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC20, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (C: 4a; As: 4c; V: 4c; V: 8f). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

V₃PC, V₃PN, V₃AsN, Cr₃PC, Cr₃AsC, Zr₃AlN, UScS₃ <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry ABC3_oC20_63_c_a_cf-003 (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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