Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date:  8 Mar 2002
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The γPu Structure

You can now

• see the structure from several perspectives;
• examine the structure with an external viewer; or
• download the coordinates of the atoms in these pictures in XYZ format.
• visualize the structure (Uses the JMOL Applet)

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• It is obvious from the coordinates that this is an extremely distorted diamond (A4) structure, but, as noted by Donohue, it can also be considered as a distorted hcp (A3) structure.

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• Prototype: γPu
• Pearson Symbol: oF8
• Space Group: Fddd (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 70
• Reference: Donohue, Structures of the Elements, pp. 164-5.
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	½ b Y + ½ c Z
  A2	=	½ a X + ½ c Z
  A3	=	½ a X + ½ b Y

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=	+ 1/8 A1 + 1/8 A2 + 1/8 A3	=	+ 1/8 a X + 1/8 b Y + 1/8 c Z	(Pu)	(2a)
  B2	=	- 1/8 A1 - 1/8 A2 - 1/8 A3	=	- 1/8 a X - 1/8 b Y - 1/8 c Z	(Pu)	(2a)

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Structures indexed by: Strukturbericht Symbol Pearson Symbol Space Group Prototype

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).