The most important characteristics of the Voronoi-Dirichlet polyhedra (VDP) of A atoms (A = Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, or Ar)
were determined. The sublattices contain chemically identical A atoms in the crystal structures of 232006 inorganic, coordination,
and organoelement compounds. The VDP of A atoms have most often 14 faces, the Fedorov cuboctahedron being the most abundant
VDP type. The effect of the nature of the A atoms on the characteristic A-A interatomic distances in the homoatomic sublattices
of the crystal structures was considered.
Original Russian Text © V.N. Serezhkin, D.V. Pushkin, L.B. Serezhkina, 2008, published in Koordinatsionnaya Khimiya, 2008,
Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 733–738.