Abstract
It is shown that the x-ray powder diffraction patterns of rapidly quenched MnAl6 and Mg32(Al,Zn)49 and the neutron powder diffraction pattern of MnAl6 are compatible with the proposed 820-atom primitive cubic structure [Pauling, L. (1987) Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 365-368]. The values found for the edge of the unit cube are 23.365 Å (x-ray) and 23.416 Å (neutron) for MnAl6 and 24.313 Å (x-ray) for Mg32(Al,Zn)49.
Keywords: 5-fold axes in crystals; Mg32(Al,Zn)49
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