International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume E
Subperiodic groups
Edited by V. Kopský and D. B. Litvin

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. E. ch. 1.2, p. 6   | 1 | 2 |

Table 1.2.1.2 

V. Kopskýa and D. B. Litvinb*

a Department of Physics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, and Institute of Physics, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, PO Box 24, 180 40 Prague 8, Czech Republic, and bDepartment of Physics, Penn State Berks Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, PO Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  u3c@psu.edu

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Classification of rod groups

Bold symbols indicate Laue groups.

Three-dimensional crystal system Crystallographic point groups No. of rod-group types Restrictions on conventional coordinate system
Triclinic 1, [{\bar{\bf 1}}] 2 None
Monoclinic (inclined) 2, m, 2/m 5 β = γ = 90°
Monoclinic (orthogonal) 5 α = β = 90°
Orthorhombic 222, 2mm, mmm 10 α = β = γ = 90°
Tetragonal 4, [\bar{4}], 4/m 19
422, 4mm, [\bar{4}]2m, 4/mmm
Trigonal 3, [{\bar{\bf 3}}] 11 α = β = 90, γ = 120°
32, 3m, [{\bar{\bf 3}}]m
Hexagonal 6, [\bar{6}], 6/m 23
622, 6mm, [\bar{6}]m2, 6/mmm