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Nevskite (BiSe)

Trigonal · space group P-3m1 (No. 164) · Pearson hP12 · mineral: nevskite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Nevskite (BiSe) in P-3m1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 4.212 Å, b = 4.212 Å, c = 22.942 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 120.00°
Cell volume
352.5 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
12 (Bi 6, Se 6)
Formula units Z
6
Pearson symbol
hP12 — hexagonal / trigonal, primitive lattice, 12 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
12 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Bi1Bi2c20.00000.00000.3727
Se4Se2c20.00000.00000.1279
Bi2Bi2d20.33330.66670.0419
Bi3Bi2d20.33330.66670.7959
Se5Se2d20.33330.66670.2797
Se6Se2d20.33330.66670.5596

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 12 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 12 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

AB_hP12_164_c2d_c2d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol hP12, then the space-group number 164, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Bi: 2c; Se: 2c; Bi: 2d; Bi: 2d; Se: 2d; Se: 2d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

BiTe (tsumoite), Bi(S_{0.56}Te_{0.44}) (ingodite) <!--beginning with an

Note: Nevskite.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_hP12_164_c2d_c2d-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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