Fepo4 In Chemistry Symbols

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Iron phosphate, or FePO4 in chemistry symbol, has a highly similar structure to that of quartz, which has a trigonal lattice with space group P3121 (group no. 152). Below the temperature of 980K, FePO4 occurs as α-
FePO4, which shows a trigonal lattice structure with space group P3121 too. In the kind of structure, iron, phosphate and oxygen fill Wyckoff positions of 3a, 3b and 6c in that order. Every iron or phosphate atom is joined to four oxygen atoms, creating the corner-connected FeO4 and PO4 tetrahedra. This is the same as the way every silicon atom is joined to four oxygen atoms to create a network of corner-connected tetrahedra in quartz. When temperature is set to more than 980K, α-FePO4 is shown as α-β transition, while the successive …show more content…

At lower temperature, there are 31 screw axes in the unit cell, for example at the origin, when looking along the [001] direction. Nonetheless, such space symmetry operator is not present at the origin of unit cell of β-FePO4. A 64 screw axis is present in β-FePO4 instead, as there is a normal hexagon around the origin of the unit cell. In addition to that, there are 2-fold rotation points in the middle of the edges as well as the center of the unit cell of β-FePO4. These symmetry operators are not observed in α-FePO4.
The temperature increase causes rise in kinetic energy, resulting in more atomic vibrations, which as a result leads to an increase in unit cell volume. This can be seen from the data in the article. When temperature rises from 294K to 969K, cell parameters increase from 5.0314 Å to 5.1346 Å, while c increases from 11.2465 Å to 11.3465 Å. While this happens, the unit cell volume also increases from 246.56 Å3 to 259.06 Å3
. This thermal expansion is brought upon by tetrahedral tilting and it can be observed by comparing Fig. (a) and (e).
Fig (e) FePO4 (659K) Fig (f) FePO4 (969K)
Comparing Fig. (a), (b), (e) and (f), we can directly notice the tetrahedral tilting, especially for the

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