Perovskite - CaTiO3

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Perovskite- CaTiO3 was first described by Gustav Rose in the 1830's who named it after the famous Russian mineralogist Count Lev Aleksevich von Perovski. It can be envisaged as a cubic unit cell with a Ti ion at the center of the cube, Ca ions at the edges of the cube and the O ions occupying the mid-points of all the faces.

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Highlight an O site, CN=6, Ca atoms blue, Ti atoms cyan
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Complexes that adopt this structure include..
NaNbO3, LaGaO3, KMgF3 and KZnF3
Information is available to show how the individual structural pages were created.
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