Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2012
The compound Ba4Nd3F17 was prepared by heating predried BaF2 and EuF3 (4:3) at 900 °C for 8 h in static vacuum. The polycrystalline sample obtained was characterized by Rietveld refinement of the observed powder diffraction data with the starting model of Ba4Y3F17. This compound crystallizes in a rhombohedral lattice with unit-cell parameters, a=11.2818(3) and c=20.7788(11) Å, Z=6, (Space group R 3, No. 148). The Rp, Rwp and Rexp factors were 9.5%, 12.9% and 10.9%, respectively.