title: Garnet-like structures of high-pressure cadmium germanate and calcium germanate.
abstract: Crystals of CdGeO(3) grown at a pressure of 65 kilobars are tetragonal and have an ordered, garnet-like crystal structure with cadmium occupying the dodecahedral and octahedral sites, and germanium the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. The crystal structure (a = 12.406 +/- 1 angstroms, c = 12.256 +/- 1 angstroms, and space group 14,/a) has been refined by least-squares analysis to an R (discrepancy index) of 0.073. Two high-pressure phases of CaGeO(3) were synthesized, one isotypic with tetragonal CdGeO(3) (a = 12.514 +/- 3 angstroms, c = 12.358 +/- 3 angstroms), and the other isotypic with perovskite.
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Prewitt
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Sleight