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Crystal structure: Rhombohedral

The rhombohedral unit cell (RHO) is a cube distorted in the direction of the space diagonal. Although it is primitive, it is not conventional, as the threefold axis does not lie in the direction of a lattice vector, but in the direction of the space diagonal.

Boronblack-brown

33As

Arsenicmetallic grey

51Sb

Antimonysilvery lustrous gray

62Sm

Samariumsilvery white

80Hg

Mercuryshiny, silvery liquid

83Bi

Bismuthlustrous brownish silver

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Hexagonal Hexagonal close-packed Body-centered cubic Rhombohedral Simple cubic Face-centered cubic Diamond structure Orthorhombic Tetragonal Double hexagonal close-packed Monoclinic