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Low Temperature HCl ClH

Orthorhombic · space group Cmc21 (No. 36) · Pearson oC8

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Low Temperature HCl in Cmc21

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.825 Å, b = 5.505 Å, c = 5.373 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
172.3 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
8 (Cl 4, H 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC8 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 8 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Cl1Cl4a40.00000.25000.0000
H2H4a40.00000.08100.8300

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 8 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

AB_oC8_36_a_a-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC8, then the space-group number 36, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cl: 4a; H: 4a). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: LT.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_oC8_36_a_a-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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