Solving Spinal Structure Mystery in Solid State Chemistry

[Kitrak]

In solid state chemistry, what's a normal spinal structure? I came across a question about it and I couldn't find any credible answers.

 

[Borek]

Spinal?

Please elaborate, your question (even assuming I guess correctly what it is about) is rather cryptic.

 

[TeethWhitener]

I think you mean 'spinel.' Here's a description of normal and inverse spinels:
[PLAIN]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinel_group[/PLAIN]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinel_group

And here's a site with examples (see left-hand menu for examples of different crystal structures:

http://www.chemtube3d.com/solidstate/_spinel(final).htm

 

[Kitrak]

TeethWhitener, you're right. The book printed it wrong I guess. So the +2 cation occupies 1/8^th of the tetrahedral voids and the +3 cation occupies half of the octahedral voids?

 

[Kitrak]

Spinal?

Please elaborate, your question (even assuming I guess correctly what it is about) is rather cryptic.

*spinel
Sorry about the spelling mistake :P
The original question was about the lattice system of the anions in a normal spinel structure.