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Use horizontally and vertically, and label each molecular center by its fractional height along the viewing direction. The four centers in one periodic cell are with height and orientation A, with height and orientation A, with height and orientation B, and with height and orientation B. Boundary images complete the projected rectangle. The A and B bonds have opposite slopes; the atoms in each bond are indistinguishable.
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Original molecular-center construction and symmetry traces for the iodine cell viewed along ; bond inclination is schematic, heights and bond length are specified
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The height labels matter: a symmetry of the unlabelled projection need not be a translation or reflection symmetry of the three-dimensional crystal. The drawing uses the given molecular bond length and an illustrative inclination, since no exact inclination angle is specified.

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