Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances 2018-03-01

Monoclinic sphere packings. II. Trivariant lattice complexes with mirror symmetry

Heidrun Sowa

Index: 10.1107/S2053273318000475

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Abstract

All homogeneous sphere packings were derived that refer to the three trivariant monoclinic lattice complexes with mirror symmetry. In total, 29 types of sphere packings have been found. Only for three types is the maximal inherent symmetry of their sphere packings monoclinic whereas the inherent symmetry is orthorhombic for 13 types, tetragonal for eight types, hexagonal for four types and cubic for one type.