Solution

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One crystallographic inversion center is
The inversion maps to ; it exchanges both the Fe pair and the Se pair modulo lattice translations.
A axis passes along through the Fe site , and likewise through . A representative rotoinversion is
It leaves the first Fe site fixed, maps the other Fe onto a translationally equivalent site, and exchanges the Se height classes. The operation includes a vertical reversal, so it must not be replaced by a pure -degree rotation about an Fe site. Such a pure rotation would put a selenium atom at the wrong height.

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