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Core dictionary version 3.0.14

_space_group.multiplicity

Name:
_space_group.multiplicity

Definition:

   
     Number of unique symmetry elements in the space group.

Type: Integer


The permitted range is 1 → 192

Evaluation method:

     n =  0
 
     Loop  s  as  space_group_symop  n +=  1
 
      _space_group.multiplicity  =   n

Category:
space_group


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.