The crystal structure of tribarium digallium tetranitride is based on
a distorted cubic close packing of N atoms with three-quarters of the
octahedral holes occupied by Ba atoms and one-quarter of the tetrahedr
al holes occupied by Ga atoms. The GaN4 tetrahedra share edges and for
m [GaN4/23-] chains, which are isosteric to the edge-sharing SiS2 tetr
ahedra in the SiS2 structure.