Card No: 3348       Created: 19/04/1988    Last edition: 13/01/2009

Name: ORTHOCLASE
Specification: [3]
Formula: KAlSi3O8
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-beta
Space Group: C 2/m
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 8.5610 | b = 12.9960 | c = 7.1920 | beta = 116.1000
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 4Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 718.58
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 52 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 108.21
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

NR = 750
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 2.57
R-factor: R = 0.0840MU, 1/cm: µ = 124.564
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 48.433
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45