Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date:  2 Dec 2001
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The MnP (B31) Structure

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• Prototype: MnP
• Pearson Symbol: oP8
• Strukturbericht Designation: B31
• Space Group: Pnma (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 62
• Reference: Pearson's Handbook, Vol. IV, p. 4347.
• Other Compounds with this Structure: AsCo, AsCr, AsFe, AsV, AsMo, CoP, CrP, FeP, FeS, GeNi, GeIr, GeRh, IrSi, RhSi, SeTi, many more
• Primitive Vectors:

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

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=	+ x1 A1 + ¼ A2 + z1 A3	=	+ x1 a X + ¼ b Y + z1 c Z	(Mn)	(4c)
  B2	=	- x1 A1 + ¾ A2 - z1 A3	=	- x1 a X + ¾ b Y - z1 c Z	(Mn)	(4c)
  B3	=	(½ - x1) A1 + ¾ A2 + (½ + z1) A3	=	(½ - x1) a X + ¾ b Y + (½ + z1) c Z	(Mn)	(4c)
  B4	=	(½ + x1) A1 + ¼ A2 + (½ - z1) A3	=	(½ + x1) a X + ¼ b Y + (½ - z1) c Z	(Mn)	(4c)
  B5	=	+ x2 A1 + ¼ A2 + z2 A3	=	+ x2 a X + ¼ b Y + z2 c Z	(P)	(4c)
  B6	=	- x2 A1 + ¾ A2 - z2 A3	=	- x2 a X + ¾ b Y - z2 c Z	(P)	(4c)
  B7	=	(½ - x2) A1 + ¾ A2 + (½ + z2) A3	=	(½ - x2) a X + ¾ b Y + (½ + z2) c Z	(P)	(4c)
  B8	=	(½ + x2) A1 + ¼ A2 + (½ - z2) A3	=	(½ + x2) a X + ¼ b Y + (½ - z2) c Z	(P)	(4c)

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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).