Figure 1
A polyhedral representation of the crystal structure of Mg7(AsO4)2(HAsO4)4 in a view along [10], i.e. nearly parallel to the zigzag chains built from the edge-sharing Mg2-, Mg3- and Mg4-centred polyhedra (the Mg1O6 octahedron, centered by Mg1 on the origin, is not involved in this chain). MgO6 octahedra are unmarked, the distorted Mg3O5 trigonal bipyramids are striped and AsO4 tetrahedra are marked with crosses. The very short hydrogen bond is also shown (dotted line). |