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Westerveldite (FeAs, B14)

Orthorhombic · space group Pnma (No. 62) · Pearson oP8 · Strukturbericht B14 · mineral: westerveldite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Westerveldite (FeAs, B14) in Pnma

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.454 Å, b = 3.325 Å, c = 6.029 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
109.3 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
8 (As 4, Fe 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oP8 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 8 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
As1As4c40.20050.25000.5741
Fe2Fe4c40.00580.25000.1993

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_oP8_62_c_c-005: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP8, then the space-group number 62, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (As: 4c; Fe: 4c). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

AuGa, CoAs, CoP, CrAs, CrP, CrTe, FeP, FeS, IrGe, IrSi, MnAs, MnP, MnTe, NbS, NiGe, NiSi, PRu, PdGe, PdSi, PdSn, PtGe, PtSi, RhAs, RhGe, RhSb, RhSi, RuAs, RuP, RuSb, SeTi, VAs, VS, WP <!--beginning with an

Note: B14, Westerveldite.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_oP8_62_c_c-005 (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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