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Name and formula

Reference code: 00-009-0418

PDF index name: Cobalt Oxide

Empirical formula: Co3O4

Chemical formula: Co3O4

Crystallographic parameters
Crystal system: Cubic
Space group: Fd-3m
Space group number: 227

a (Å): 8.0840
b (Å): 8.0840
c (Å): 8.0840
Alpha (°): 90.0000
Beta (°): 90.0000
Gamma (°): 90.0000

Calculated density (g/cm^3): 6.05

Volume of cell (10^6 pm^3): 528.30
Z: 8.00

RIR: -

Status, subfiles and quality

Status: Marked as deleted by ICDD
Subfiles: Inorganic
Alloy, metal or intermetalic
Corrosion
Common Phase
Educational pattern
NBS pattern
Quality: Indexed (I)

Comments
Deleted by: Deleted by 00-042-1467, better FN, higher QM, McMurdie 12/95.
Color: Black
General comments: Merck Index, 8th Ed., p. 272.
Sample preparation: Sample prepared at NBS, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, by heating cobalt fluoride to
850 C for 24 hours.
Analysis: Spectrographic analysis: 1.0-0.1% Ca, Ni; 0.1-1.0% each of Al, Fe, Mg, Si; 0.001-0.01%
each of Ba, Cu, Mn; 0.001-0.001% of Cr.
Additional pattern: Validated by calculated pattern 00-043-1003.
Temperature: Pattern taken at 24 C.

References
Primary reference: Natl. Bur. Stand. (U.S.), Circ. 539, 9, 29, (1960)

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Peak list
No. h k l d [A] 2Theta[deg] I [%]
1 1 1 1 4.66900 18.992 20.0
2 2 2 0 2.86000 31.249 40.0
3 3 1 1 2.43800 36.837 100.0
4 2 2 2 2.33300 38.559 12.0
5 4 0 0 2.02100 44.810 25.0
6 4 2 2 1.65050 55.642 12.0
7 5 1 1 1.55590 59.350 35.0
8 4 4 0 1.42930 65.222 45.0
9 6 2 0 1.27880 74.078 6.0
10 5 3 3 1.23300 77.326 12.0
11 6 2 2 1.21910 78.375 8.0
12 4 4 4 1.16710 82.602 4.0
13 5 5 1 1.13210 85.752 4.0
14 6 4 2 1.08030 90.966 8.0
15 5 5 3 1.05240 94.100 16.0
16 8 0 0 1.01050 99.334 8.0
17 6 6 0 0.95290 107.875 6.0
18 7 5 1 0.93350 111.212 16.0
19 6 6 2 0.92750 112.303 6.0

Stick Pattern

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