Card No: 928       Created: 08/04/1993    Last edition: 13/01/2009

Name: CLINOENSTATITE
Specification: [1], structure type - diopside, at 7.93 GPa
Formula: MgSiO3
Symmetry Class: monoclinic-beta
Space Group: C 2/c
Unit Cell
Parameters:
a = 9.2010 | b = 8.6210 | c = 4.9080 | beta = 101.5000
Number of Formula Unit: Z = 8Unit Cell Volume, Å3: Vc = 381.50
Number of Atomic Position
per full Unit Cell
:
P/U = 40 Molar Volume, cm3/mol: Vm = 28.72
Number of Reflexes used in
Structure Determination
:

NR = 136
X-ray density, g/cm3: p = 3.49
R-factor: R = 0.0260MU, 1/cm: µ = 111.120
Wave Length for Calculated
Powder Diffraction Patterns
:
Cu=1.54056Mass attenuation coefficient,
cm2/g
:
µ/p = 31.798
Theta-Interval for CPDP: T/I = 1-45