Crystal Lattice Structures:	Reference Date:  1 Sep 1995
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The CsCl (B2) Structure

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• Prototype: CsCl
• Pearson Symbol: cP2
• Strukturbericht Designation: B2
• Space Group: Pm3m (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 221
• Reference: Kittel Introduction to Solid State Physics, p. 17.
• Other Compounds with this Structure: CsBr, CsI, RbCl, AlCo, AgZn, BeCu, MgCe, RuAl, SrTl
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	a X
  A2	=	a Y
  A3	=	a Z

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=		0		(Cs)	(1a)
  B2	=	½ A1 + ½ A2 + ½ A3	=	½ aX + ½ aY + ½ aZ	(Cl)	(1b)

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