Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date: 25 Oct 2002
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The PbCl₂ (C23) Structure

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• Strukturbericht Vol. II (16-18) gives this structure in the Pnmb orientation of space group #62. We changed it to Pnma by switching the x and y axis, and then multiplying the x (originally y) coordinates by -1.
• This structure is very similar to the Co₂Si (C37) structure.
• This is the 200^th structure added to the database.

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• Prototype: PbCl₂
• Pearson Symbol: oP12
• Strukturbericht Designation: C23
• Space Group: Pnma (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 62
• Other compounds with this structure: PbBr₂
• Reference: Strukturbericht, Vol II, p. 16.
• 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	(Pb)	(4c)
  B2	=	- x1 A1 + ¾ A2 - z1 A3	=	- x1 a X + ¾ b Y - z1 c Z	(Pb)	(4c)
  B3	=	(½ - x1) A1 + ¾ A2 + (½ + z1) A3	=	(½ - x1) a X + ¾ b Y + (½ + z1) c Z	(Pb)	(4c)
  B4	=	(½ + x1) A1 + ¼ A2 + (½ - z1) A3	=	(½ + x1) a X + ¼ b Y + (½ - z1) c Z	(Pb)	(4c)
  B5	=	+ x2 A1 + ¼ A2 + z2 A3	=	+ x2 a X + ¼ b Y + z2 c Z	(Cl-I)	(4c)
  B6	=	- x2 A1 + ¾ A2 - z2 A3	=	- x2 a X + ¾ b Y - z2 c Z	(Cl-I)	(4c)
  B7	=	(½ - x2) A1 + ¾ A2 + (½ + z2) A3	=	(½ - x2) a X + ¾ b Y + (½ + z2) c Z	(Cl-I)	(4c)
  B8	=	(½ + x2) A1 + ¼ A2 + (½ - z2) A3	=	(½ + x2) a X + ¼ b Y + (½ - z2) c Z	(Cl-I)	(4c)
  B9	=	+ x3 A1 + ¼ A2 + z3 A3	=	+ x3 a X + ¼ b Y + z3 c Z	(Cl-II)	(4c)
  B10	=	- x3 A1 + ¾ A2 - z3 A3	=	- x3 a X + ¾ b Y - z3 c Z	(Cl-II)	(4c)
  B11	=	(½ - x3) A1 + ¾ A2 + (½ + z3) A3	=	(½ - x3) a X + ¾ b Y + (½ + z3) c Z	(Cl-II)	(4c)
  B12	=	(½ + x3) A1 + ¼ A2 + (½ - z3) A3	=	(½ + x3) a X + ¼ b Y + (½ - z3) c Z	(Cl-II)	(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).