Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2013
The crystal structure of the rare earth (RE) compound CeFeGe3 has been studied by X-ray powder diffraction and refined by the Rietveld profile fitting method. The compound has the tetragonal BaNiSn3-type structure, space group I4mm (No. 107) a=4.3294(1) Å, c=9.9444(3) Å, V=186.39 Å3, Z=2, and Dx=7.372 g·cm−3. The figure of merit FN for the powder data is F30=184.3(0.0037,44). The structure refinement was performed with 106 reflections and led to Rp=13.2% and Rwp=18.2%. Powder data are given.