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Image: Malachite-xtal-Cu1-coordination-3D-bs-N17-M25

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Description: Ball-and-stick model of the Jahn-Teller distorted octahedral coordination geometry of copper Cu1 as found in the crystal structure of malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2 determined by neutron diffraction and reported in Z. Krist. (1977) 145, 412-426 (COD entry 5000043). Colour code:

  Copper, Cu: orange-brown   Carbon, C: grey   Oxygen, O: red   Hydrogen, H: white Model manipulated and image generated in CCDC Mercury 3.8.
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