Card No: 634       Created: 10/01/1996    Last edition: 09/02/2017

Name: BRITHOLITE-(Y)
Specification: [1], "distorted" structure type - apatite
Formula: (Ca,Fe,Mn,Y,Nd,Dy)4.58[Si2.93P0.13][F0.93(OH)0.07]
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-gamma
Space Group: *P 2(1)
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 9.4216 | b = 9.4138 | c = 6.7639 | gamma = 120.0284
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 1Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 519.39
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 42 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 312.85
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

NR = 1638
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 4.83
R-factor: R = 0.0340MU, 1/cm: µ = 450.676
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 93.299
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45