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    The fluorite structure refers to a common motif for compounds with the formula MX2. The X ions occupy the eight tetrahedral interstitial sites whereas...
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    Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit...
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    also have this structure (ThC, PaC, UC, NpC, PuC). Much like the rock salt structure, the fluorite structure (AB2) is also an Fm3m structure but has 1:2...
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  • engineering applications, Schottky defects are important in oxides with Fluorite structure, such as CeO2, cubic ZrO2, UO2, ThO2 and PuO2.[citation needed] Typically...
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  • oxide adopt the "C-type rare earth structure", also called "bixbyite", which is cubic and related to the fluorite structure. Carbon trioxide, CO3 Chromium...
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    fluoride, CaF2, crystallizes in a cubic motif called the fluorite structure. The same crystal structure is found in numerous ionic compounds with formula AB2...
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    species; e.g. Y2Ti2O7.The pyrochlore structure is a super structure derivative of the simple fluorite structure (AO2 = A4O8), where the A and B cations...
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    Barium chloride (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    The coordination of Ba2+ is 8 in the fluorite structure and 9 in the cotunnite structure. When cotunnite-structure BaCl2 is subjected to pressures of 7–10 GPa...
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  • Calcium fluoride (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    fluorite (also called fluorspar), which is often deeply coloured owing to impurities. The compound crystallizes in a cubic motif called the fluorite structure...
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  • chlorides are readily soluble. Many of the difluorides adopt the fluorite structure, named after calcium fluoride (and also adopted by several metal dioxides...
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    In the form of the mineral fluorite it is the major source of commercial fluorine. It also has an eponymic crystal structure, which is an end member of...
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    be thermodynamically stable at pressures above 113 GPa. It has a fluorite structure. Although it is rare on Earth, helium is the second most abundant...
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    halides to crystallize in the structure with highest Z compatible with their ionic radii. Note also how the fluorite structure being intermediate between...
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    Strontium chloride (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    dehydration occurs at 320 °C (608 °F). In the solid state, SrCl2 adopts a fluorite structure. In the vapour phase the SrCl2 molecule is non-linear with a Cl-Sr-Cl...
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    can be prepared by reacting caesium and selenium. It has an inverse fluorite structure, with space group F m 3 ¯ m {\displaystyle Fm{\bar {3}}m} . There...
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  • Praseodymium(III,IV) oxide (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    cubic fluorite structure. It is the most stable form of praseodymium oxide at ambient temperature and pressure. Pr6O11 adopts a cubic fluorite crystal...
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    Cubic zirconia (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    conditions. A stabilizer is required for cubic crystals (taking on the fluorite structure) to form, and remain stable at ordinary temperatures; typically this...
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    Iridium (category Chemical elements with face-centered cubic structure)
    iridium dioxide, IrO 2. It is a blue black solid that adopts the fluorite structure. A sesquioxide, Ir 2O 3, has been described as a blue-black powder...
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    and tantalum. For details on crystal structure see cerium(IV) oxide. Both ceria and thoria have a fluorite structure. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
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    Barium fluoride (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    frankdicksonite. Under standard conditions it adopts the fluorite structure and at high pressure the PbCl2 structure. Like CaF2, it is resilient to and insoluble...
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    are filled by ions of opposite charge, the structure formed is the fluorite structure or antifluorite structure. If all the octahedral sites of the parent...
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    Uranate (section Structures)
    6×1/3 O = UO4. The structure has been described as a hexagonal layer structure. It can also viewed as a distorted fluorite structure in which two U-O distances...
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    Cerium(IV) oxide (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    unstable and will oxidize to cerium(IV) oxide. Cerium oxide adopts the fluorite structure, space group Fm3m, #225 containing 8-coordinate Ce4+ and 4-coordinate...
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    Rubidium selenide (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    Rb2Se + H2O Rubidium selenide has cubic crystal structure, which belongs to the antifluorite structure, and the space group is F m 3 ¯ m {\displaystyle...
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    Thorium dioxide (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    polymorphs. One has a fluorite crystal structure. This is uncommon among binary dioxides. (Other binary oxides with fluorite structure include cerium dioxide...
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    Americium dioxide (category Fluorite crystal structure)
    a black compound of americium. In the solid state, AmO2 adopts a fluorite structure (like CaF2). It is used as a source of alpha particles. The demand...
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    synthesized in the 1960s. This salt crystallizes with the cubic fluorite structure, with the oxide and fluoride anions randomly distributed in anion...
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  • made the determination of its crystal structure difficult. It adopts a distorted anti-fluorite crystal structure, similar to that of rubidium peroxide...
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    the cubic fluorite structure, which is common to both pure ceria and cubic zirconia (pure zirconia normally only adopts a cubic structure at high temperatures)...
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    ytterbium(III) oxide has the "rare-earth C-type sesquioxide" structure which is related to the fluorite structure with one quarter of the anions removed, leading to...
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