[xcrysden] Boron atom is bigger than Nitrogen in the structure visualization
Yusuf Zuntu
yzunt at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 16 14:18:58 CET 2014
Dear prof Kokalj,
Thank you very much
On Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:46 PM, Tone Kokalj <tone.kokalj at ijs.si> wrote:
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 03:19 -0800, Yusuf Zuntu wrote:
> Please may I know how to fix this problem. In my armchair
> hydrogen-terminated boron nitride nanoribbons structure visualization
> in XcrysDen, boron atom is bigger than nitrogen atom.
Which is the way it should be, because the size of plotted "balls" in
xcrysden is proportional with covalent radii.
> This is not suppose to be since atomic number of nitrogen atom is more
> than the atomic of atomic number of boron atom.
Is it?
Well, atomic number of N > B, but ...
See: https://www.webelements.com/periodicity/covalent_radius/
and try to answer to yourself why it is the other way around, i.e.,
r_B > r_N.
Anyway you can change the display radius via: Modify-->Atomic Radii menu
(e.g., if you want to base the size of the balls on the ionic radius
instead).
Regards,
--
Anton Kokalj
J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
(tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822)
Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
_______________________________________________
XCrySDen mailing list
XCrySDen at democritos.it
http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/xcrysden
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/attachments/20140116/96894786/attachment-0001.htm
More information about the XCrySDen
mailing list