Materials Data on NaLu3 by Materials Project
NaLu3 is alpha bismuth trifluoride structured and crystallizes in the cubic Fm-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Na is bonded in a distorted body-centered cubic geometry to fourteen Lu atoms. There are eight shorter (3.37 Å) and six longer (3.89 Å) Na–Lu bond lengths. There are two inequivalent Lu sites. In the first Lu site, Lu is bonded in a distorted body-centered cubic geometry to four equivalent Na and four equivalent Lu atoms. All Lu–Lu bond lengths are 3.37 Å. In the second Lu site, Lu is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to six equivalent Na and eight equivalent Lu atoms.
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