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Ima2

Example – Batisite, Na₂BaTi₂O₂[Si₄O₁₂]

Named in allusion to its chemical composition, containing Barium, Titanium, and Silicon.

Crystal structure of batisite

Nikitin A.V., Belov N.V.
Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 146 (1962) 1401-1403

http://webmineral.com/data/Batisite.shtml

CIF
http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/AMS/download.php?id=14401.cif&down=cif

 

BaO10 polyhedra (green)
NaO6/O7 polyhedra (purple)
TiO6 octahedra (blue)
SiO4 tetrahedra (yellow)

3D rotatable model of Batisite

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