Solution

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There are screw axes parallel to through , with periodic repeats.
For the first axis the operation in fractional coordinates is
It rotates by about the axis and translates by . For example, it sends the A center at to the A center at , and sends B at to B at modulo integer translations. A half-turn preserves each unoriented diatomic bond. A second application gives one full translation.
There are also ordinary twofold axes through the molecular-center rows; those should not be confused with the screw axes halfway between the corresponding rows.

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