Solution

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Each Ti has coordination number six, with oxygen neighbours forming a distorted octahedron. Each oxygen has coordination number three, with titanium neighbours forming a planar triangle. For oxygen at , the nearest Ti positions can be taken as and ; all three lie in the plane . The triangle is not generally equilateral. Equal Ti–O bond lengths in the following calculation do not make every angle ideal.

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