International Tables for Crystallography

Volume G: Definition and exchange of crystallographic data

First online edition (2006)

Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon
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Describes CIF, the data exchange standard of crystallography. Provides: information for scientists who wish to record or use the results of a single-crystal or powder diffraction experiment; the data ontology necessary for designing interoperable computer applications; accompanying software including machine-readable CIF dictionaries, libraries and utility programs.

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

Index

Core dictionary (coreCIF) version 2.4.2

_symmetry_cell_setting

Name:
'_symmetry_cell_setting'

This definition has been superseded and is retained here only for archival purposes. Use instead '_space_group_crystal_system'

Definition:

   The cell settings for this space-group symmetry.

Related item:
The data value must be one of the following:


triclinic

monoclinic

orthorhombic

tetragonal

rhombohedral

trigonal

hexagonal

cubic

Type: char

Category: symmetry