Materials Data on BaF2 by Materials Project
BaF2 is Cotunnite structured and crystallizes in the orthorhombic Pnma space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ba2+ is bonded in a 9-coordinate geometry to nine F1- atoms. There are a spread of Ba–F bond distances ranging from 2.64–3.10 Å. There are two inequivalent F1- sites. In the first F1- site, F1- is bonded in a 5-coordinate geometry to five equivalent Ba2+ atoms. In the second F1- site, F1- is bonded to four equivalent Ba2+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing FBa4 tetrahedra.