Materials Data on Na3Cd by Materials Project
Na3Cd is Uranium Silicide-like structured and crystallizes in the hexagonal P6_3/mmc space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Na is bonded in a distorted see-saw-like geometry to four equivalent Cd atoms. There are two shorter (3.46 Å) and two longer (3.53 Å) Na–Cd bond lengths. Cd is bonded to twelve equivalent Na atoms to form a mixture of face and corner-sharing CdNa12 cuboctahedra.
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