-    OLDHAMITE-NININGERITE SERIES     -    Mg3CaS4

This is a term of the MgS-Cas solid solution with ordered super-structure: every 4th Mg atom is replaced by 1 Ca. Because of symmetry, there is no Raman-active mode; all the modes are InfraRed-active. See article for details

Crystal Structure 


Because of the translational symmetry all the calculations are performed in the primitive unit cell and not in the conventional unit cell. The following information regarding the structure is given with respect to this primitive unit cell, which sometimes can take an unintuitive shape.

Symmetry (experimental): 

Space group:  221  Pm-3m 
Lattice parameters (Å):       
Angles (°):  90  90  90 

Symmetry (theoretical): 

Space group:  221  Pm-3m 
Lattice parameters (Å):  5.2787  5.2787  5.2787 
Angles (°):  90  90  90 

Cell contents: 

Number of atoms: 
Number of atom types: 
Chemical composition: 

Atomic positions (theoretical):

Ca:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
Mg:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
Mg:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
Mg:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
S:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
S:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
S:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
S:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000 
Atom type 

We have listed here the reduced coordinates of all the atoms in the primitive unit cell.
It is enough to know only the position of the atoms from the assymetrical unit cell and then use the symmetry to build the whole crystal structure.

Visualization of the crystal structure: 

Size:

Nx:  Ny:  Nz: 
You can define the size of the supercell to be displayed in the jmol panel as integer translations along the three crys­tallo­gra­phic axis.
Please note that the structure is represented using the pri­mi­tive cell, and not the conventional one.