Figure 5
A polyhedral representation of MgCl2·4H2O (top) and FeBr2·4H2O (bottom; data from Waizumi et al., 1992). The horizontal layers of octahedra are essentially identical in the two structures. Stacking of the layers in MgCl2·4H2O can be described as an ABAB sequence, compared with an AAA sequence in FeBr2·4H2O. |