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Buckled Graphite C

Hexagonal · space group P63mc (No. 186) · Pearson hP4 · mineral: graphite

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Buckled Graphite in P63mc

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 2.470 Å, b = 2.470 Å, c = 6.800 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 120.00°
Cell volume
35.9 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
4 (C 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
hP4 — hexagonal / trigonal, primitive lattice, 4 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
12 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
C1C2a20.00000.00000.0000
C2C2b20.33330.66670.0714

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 4 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

A_hP4_186_ab-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol hP4, then the space-group number 186, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (C: 2a; C: 2b). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: Buckled Graphite.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A_hP4_186_ab-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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