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The iron silicide FeSi has been reinvestigated by X-ray photography of single crystals, and the reported structure for the substance has been verified. The space group is T4-P213, with a0 = 4.489 ±  0.005 A. Four iron atoms and four silicon atoms are in positions (x, x, x; x + {{1}\over{2}}, {{1}\over{2}} - x, \overline x; undefined), with xFe = 0.1370 ± 0.0020 and xSi = 0.842 ± 0.004. A detailed discussion of the structure and the values of the interatomic distances has been given, by application of the resonating-valence-bond theory, and it has been shown that the interatomic distances are compatible with those found for elementary iron and elementary silicon.
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