MODULAR INTERPRETATION OF OXYBORATE STRUCTURES

Oxyborate structures are considered as being built of two types of order-disorder (OD) layers which serve as building modules, which explain the formation of different structural modifications, both homogeneous maximum degree of order (MDO) and inhomogeneous (periodic and aperiodic), lattice and diffraction features. Stacking faults are a direct consequence of the OD nature of the building modules.