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Synthesis and Rietveld refinement of the ternary skutterudite RuSb2Te

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

F. Laufek and
J. Návrátil
F. Laufek*
Affiliation:
Czech Geological Survey, Geologická 6, 152 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
J. Návrátil
Affiliation:
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic v.v.i., Heyrovsky sq. 2, 12006 Prague, Czech Republic
*
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: frantisek.laufek@geology.cz
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Abstract

The RuSb2Te compound has been synthesized and structurally characterized from powder X-ray diffraction data. RuSb2Te has the skutterudite structure, Im3 symmetry, unit-cell parameter a = 9.2665(1) Å, V = 795.70(1) Å3, Z = 8, and Dc = 7.88 g/cm3. The Sb and Te atoms randomly occupy the crystallographic 24g position; no indications of ordering of Te and Sb atoms have been detected.

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RuSb2TeX-ray powder diffraction dataRietveld refinementskutteruditecrystal structure

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Powder Diffraction , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2011, pp. 331 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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