Miller Indices and Planes
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Display options "Show hkℓ plane" and "Unit cell edges"
are recommended for examining the Miller indices
(the inverse intercepts along the axes.)
Display option "Sliced spacefill unit cell" or "Unit cell faces" recommended for counting atoms within the unit cell.
Cubic
Po
CsCl
or
CsCl
Ni
3
Al
or
Cu
3
Au
ReO
3
CaTiO
3
Body Centered Cubic
Na
or
Fe
or
W
Cu
2
O
Cr
3
Si
Face Centered Cubic
Cu
or
Al
NaCl
or
NaCl
CaF
2
or
CaF
2
or
ZrO
2
Li
2
O
or
Li
2
O
ZnS
or
ZnS
or
CuCl
Diamond
or
Si
Cu
2
O
MnAlCu
2
Li
3
Bi
or
Li
3
Bi
or
BiF
3
CaSnF
6
NaTl
or
NaTl
SiO
2
(high T)
CO
2
(s)
(Fe
+3
)
4
[Fe
+2
(CN
-
)
6
]
3
.
x
H
2
O
*
(shows disordered H)
*
KFe
+3
[Fe
+2
(CN
-
)
6
]
.
x
H
2
O
*
K
2
PtCl
6
Other
K
2
PtCl
4
(tetragonal)
C
6
H
6
(orthorhombic)
Hexagonal close-packed
Co
ZnO
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1x1x1
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hkℓ plane:
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Non-coordinated interstitial water molecules not shown.
hkℓ planes derived from Peter Hadley,
Molecular and Solid State Physics
. This page created by
George Lisensky
.
Last changed September 8, 2022.
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