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[Víctor Luaña Cabal]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:56:00PM +0530, Shakeel Khandy wrote:
> I m a beginner and i want to study a compound of ABO3 type pervoskite with
> space group *pbnm*.I have got confused with the atomic positions of
> *pbnm *spacegroup.
> Although the experimental atomic positions are in my hand,but the problem
> lies in the negative atomic positions given by experimental data. Is there
> any other method to have the required atomic positions.

Shakeel,

1) The crystallographic description of coordinates assumes periodicity.
   So x=-0.12 is identical to 1+x=1-0.12. Any crystallographer is trained
   to do the operation quickly and the easy way is thinking

    1 = 0.999999999(10)
          --------- as mant 9's as it is needed

2) ¿Don't have a professor to traing you? ¿Don't have books on
   crystallography available?

3) Assuming the answers are NO in both cases let me recommend
   you some materials appropriate to the level of your question

a) My own slides on the subject

   <http://azufre.quimica.uniovi.es/DetEst/>

   Sorry by the spanish. Use google translate as you need.

b) An excellent and recent manual by italian crystallographers:

   C. Giacovazzo, Ed. Fundamentals of crystallography, IUCr & Oxford Univ Press
   IUCR: 0198555784, 1992

   There is a new edition, but I don't have it al hand.

4) This type of question should be solved by your prof./teacher

Good luck,
          Dr. Víctor Luaña
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