B. Wedel et H. Mullerbuschbaum, ON A BARIUM-OXONIOBATE-TELLURATE - BA2NB2 TEO10, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. B, A journal of chemical sciences, 51(10), 1996, pp. 1407-1410
Single crystals of Ba2Nb2TeO10 have been prepared by;solid state react
ions in air. X-ray investigations led to orthorhombic symmetry, space
group D-2h(15)-Pbca, a=7.242(4), b=12.433(3), c=9.932(3) Angstrom, Z=4
. Nb5+ and Te6+ show octahedral coordination by O2-. The crystal struc
ture is characterized by planes of edge- and corner-sharing NbO6- and
TeO6 octahedra. It is shown that in spite of nearly identical lattice
constants of Ba2Nb2TeO10 with compounds of the composition M(0,5)BaNbT
e(2)O(9) the so far unknown crystals of these substances may not be de
rived from the Ba2Nb2TeO10 type.