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Core dictionary (coreCIF) version 2.4.5

Category SYMMETRY

Name:
'_symmetry_[]'

Definition:

   Data items in the SYMMETRY category record details about the
   space-group symmetry.

Example:

Example 1 - based on data set TOZ of Willis, Beckwith & Tozer [Acta Cryst. (1991), C47, 2276-2277]. 
 
    _symmetry_cell_setting             orthorhombic
    _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M     'P 21 21 21'
    _symmetry_space_group_name_Hall    'P 2ac 2ab'


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International Tables for Crystallography

Volume G: Definition and exchange of crystallographic data

First online edition (2006)

Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon

An essential guide and reference to CIF for programmers, data managers handling crystal-structure information and practising crystallographers.