Materials Data on Mg2Ge by Materials Project
Mg2Ge is Cubic Laves structured and crystallizes in the cubic Fd-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Mg is bonded to six equivalent Mg and six equivalent Ge atoms to form a mixture of corner, edge, and face-sharing MgMg6Ge6 cuboctahedra. All Mg–Mg bond lengths are 2.85 Å. All Mg–Ge bond lengths are 3.34 Å. Ge is bonded in a 12-coordinate geometry to twelve equivalent Mg atoms.