Hex, Bugs and More Physics | Emre S. Tasci

Golden Remark: "If you assume formula and Pearson Symbol (along with the Space-group number) together are sufficient to identify a structure, then there is a 488 in 53766 (0.9%) probability that you are wrong. And that probability is more than enough to spoil the fun."

Been there, experienced it first hand yesterday.

Moral of the story : If you happen to be involved with any of the following beauties, just make sure that their twins aren’t swapping with your sweetheart. Otherwise, it is very likely that you’ll get your heart broken into two (actually into three for the ones marked with *). Checking their height-width-and shoe number works well (or directly check the volume, so to speak…)

As2O3,mP20,14
As4S3,oP28,62
AsS,mP32,14*
B2O3,hP15,144
BiI,mS16,12
BN,hP4,194
C,hP4,194
CdI2,hP18,164
CdI2,hP21,156*
CdI2,hP24,156*
CdI2,hP30,156*
CdI2,hP33,156
CdI2,hP39,156
Co2Si,oP12,62
Cr3C2,oP20,62
FeB,oP8,62
GaS,hP8,194
HgCl2,oP12,62
ICl,mP16,14
LiO,hP8,194
N2O4,cI36,204
NbSe2,hP12,187
NbTe4,tP60,75
PbI2,hP21,156
Pr5O9,mP112,14
Rh12As7,hP22,176
Se,mP32,14
SiC,hR102,160*
SN,mP8,14*
TeO2,oP24,61
Ti4O7,aP22,2
U3O8,oS22,38
U3O8,oS44,63
UF5,tI48,122
VO2,mS24,12
WO3,mP16,14
ZrO2,mP12,14

I see that it has been some time since my last entry but I hope I will be more informative from now on…