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Preferred term

XYZ Chemical File  

Definition

  • The XYZ file format is a chemical file format. There is no formal standard and several variations exist, but a typical XYZ format specifies the molecule geometry by giving the number of atoms with Cartesian coordinates that will be read on the first line, a comment on the second, and the lines of atomic coordinates in the following lines.

Identifier

  • XYZ

Notation

  • chemical/x-pdb
  • chemical/x-xyz
  • .xyz

In other languages

  • XYZ keemiline fail

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/XYZ

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