Definition:
The number as assigned in International Tables for
Crystallography Volume A, specifying the proper affine
class (i.e. the orientation-preserving affine class) of
space groups (crystallographic space-group type) to which
the space group belongs. This number defines the space-group
type but not the coordinate system in which it is expressed.
Ref: International Tables for Crystallography (2002). Volume A,
Space-group symmetry, edited by Th. Hahn, 5th ed.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Type: numb
Mandatory item: no
Alias:Category: space_group
Copyright © 2005 International Union of Crystallography