Materials Data on RbGd3F10 by Materials Project
RbGd3F10 crystallizes in the cubic Fm-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Rb1+ is bonded to sixteen F1- atoms to form distorted edge-sharing RbF16 tetrahedra. There are four shorter (2.86 Å) and twelve longer (3.31 Å) Rb–F bond lengths. Gd3+ is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight F1- atoms. There are four shorter (2.27 Å) and four longer (2.43 Å) Gd–F bond lengths. There are two inequivalent F1- sites. In the first F1- site, F1- is bonded in a bent 150 degrees geometry to two equivalent Rb1+ and two equivalent Gd3+ atoms. In the second F1- site, F1- is bonded to one Rb1+ and three equivalent Gd3+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing FRbGd3 tetrahedra.
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