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β-U (A_{b})

Tetragonal · space group P42/mnm (No. 136) · Pearson tP30 · Strukturbericht Ab

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

β-U (A_{b}) in P42/mnm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 10.590 Å, b = 10.590 Å, c = 5.634 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
631.8 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
30 (U 30)
Formula units Z
30
Pearson symbol
tP30 — tetragonal, primitive lattice, 30 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
U1U2a20.00000.00000.0000
U2U4f40.60330.60330.0000
U3U8i80.86670.53830.0000
U4U8i80.06080.73540.0000
U5U8j80.81830.81830.2700

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 30 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

A_tP30_136_af2ij-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol tP30, then the space-group number 136, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (U: 2a; U: 4f; U: 8i; U: 8i; U: 8j). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: A_{b}, \beta-U.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A_tP30_136_af2ij-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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