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About
"Fool's gold": an NaCl-like arrangement of Fe²⁺ and S₂²⁻ dumbbells. Each iron sits in a sulfur octahedron; the persulfide S–S pairs point along the body diagonals.
Structure
Prototypepyrite (C2)
Crystal systemcubic
Space groupPa-3 (205)
Latticea = 5.4179 Å
Anglesall 90°
Also crystallizes this way
MnS2CoS2NiS2PtP2
Sources
- Structure: Crystallography Open Database (COD)
- Lattice parameters: Wyckoff, Crystal Structures — a = 5.418 Å, u = 0.385