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The main feature of fluorite structure type is four families of crystallographic planes with dense trigon cation nets which are mutually oriented as the faces of a regular octahedron. A complicated cation composition may cause lowering of general symmetry to tetragonal (only one four-fold axis remains in the octahedral complex), rhombohedral (one three-fold axis), orthorhombic, and monoclinic. The geometric parameters of the cation sublattice remain constant. They are close to the parameters of the ideal face-centered cubic cation sublattice of fluorite (the measure of similarity is 1.00–0.81). This is true for all analyzed fluoride structures and some U4+, Th4+, Zr, and Ln oxyfluorides. Thus, the concept is confirmed that the crystalline state is determined by systems of parallel planes filled by dense heavy-atom nets.
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Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Struktumoi Khimii, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 71–80, January–February, 1994.
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Bliznyuk, N.A., Borisov, S.V. & Kuklina, E.S. Classification of heavy-metal fluorides. fluorides with fluorite-like cation arrangement. J Struct Chem 35, 64–73 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02578502
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