Card No: 1242       Created: 09/06/2001    Last edition: 13/01/2009

Name: DIOPSIDE
Specification: [68], structure type - diopside, at 7.4 GPa, analogue
Formula: FeGeO3
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-beta
Space Group: C 2/c
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 9.6000 | b = 8.9120 | c = 5.1080 | beta = 100.6700
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 8Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 429.46
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 40 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 32.33
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

NR = 2821
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 5.46
R-factor: R = 0.0511MU, 1/cm: µ = 117.601
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Co=1.78892Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 21.555
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45