Materials Data on BaTe3 by Materials Project
BaTe3 is Barium trisulfide structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal P-42_1m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ba is bonded in a distorted body-centered cubic geometry to twelve Te atoms. There are a spread of Ba–Te bond distances ranging from 3.65–4.07 Å. There are two inequivalent Te sites. In the first Te site, Te is bonded in a 5-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ba and two equivalent Te atoms. There are one shorter (2.85 Å) and one longer (3.50 Å) Te–Te bond lengths. In the second Te site, Te is bonded in a 2-coordinate geometry to four equivalent Ba and four equivalent Te atoms.
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