Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date:  7 Feb 2003
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The Mo₂B₅ (D8_i) Crystal Structure

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• download the coordinates of the atoms in these pictures in XYZ format.
• visualize the structure (Uses the JMOL Applet)

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• Compare this structure to W₂B₅ (D8_h) . In both the Boron atoms form buckled graphite sheets.

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• Prototype: Mo₂B₅
• Pearson Symbol: hR7
• Strukturbericht Designation: D8_i
• Space Group: R3m (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 166
• Reference: Wyckoff Vol II, pp. 189-90.
• Other compounds with this structure: V₂B₅, InL₅Tl, Li₅Sn₂, Li₅Tl₂
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	+ ahex/2 X - ahex/(2 31/2) Y + chex/3 Z
  A2	=	+ ahex/31/2 Y + chex/3 Z
  A3	=	- ahex/2 X - ahex/(2 31/2) Y + chex/3 Z

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=	+ ½(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	+ ½chex Z	(B-I)	(2b)
  B2	=	+ z1(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	+ z1chex Z	(B-II)	(2c)
  B3	=	- z1(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	- z1chex Z	(B-II)	(2c)
  B4	=	+ z2(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	+ z2chex Z	(B-III)	(2c)
  B5	=	- z2(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	- z2chex Z	(B-III)	(2c)
  B6	=	+ z3(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	+ z3chex Z	(Mo)	(2c)
  B7	=	- z3(A1 + A2 + A3)	=	- z3chex Z	(Mo)	(2c)

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This is a mirror of an old page created at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Materials Science The maintained successor is hosted at http://www.aflowlib.org/CrystalDatabase/ and published as M. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136 (Supp.), S1-S828 (2017).