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The inverse spinel cubic (left) and post-spinel orthorhombic (right) crystal structure of magnetite. The A iron sites with tetrahedral (in the spinel structure) or prismatic (in the post-spinel structure) oxygen coordination and B iron sites with the octahedral oxygen coordination are shown.
