Yang,

There are not any merohedral twin laws, but there are several pseudomerohedral twinning possibilities. The most common would be a monoclinic cell with a beta ~90, so it appears orthorhombic. Going the other way, you could have an orthorhombic cell look tetragonal if A and B are close. You could also have pseudocentering so it looks like a centered cell. There are probably more possibilities as well. Have you looked at your intensity statistics which might indicate twinning?

Jon

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On 06/21/2010 03:52 PM, yang li wrote:
Dear all,

Is there any possible of twining for a normal P212121 spacegroup and what is the twin law, say no equal cell dimensions? Some people said there is no twin law for such symmetry but I am not very sure. Thanks a lot.

Best
Yang

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