Dear users, I am facing a strange problem with Artemis and i don't know how to get rid of it. I hope any expert in the mailing lists would help me solving this problem. I have EXAFS data on Fe and Mn K-edge for Arrojadite mineral. Since the crystal structure of this mineral is not known we did neutron diffraction to refine the structure. To support the neutron diffraction results, we planned to do EXAFS on this mineral (Fe and Mn k-edge). We have around 8 different atomic species (i.e. Na,K,Fe,Mn,Al,Cr,O,P) in the mineral and some of the sites are fractionally occupied. Since ATOMS can not handle more than 7 potentials and site occupancy other than unity i have made following changes : 1) replaced Cr with Al, mainly because Cr is present in a few ppm only (relative importance). 2) set all site occupancy to 1 Even after doing the above changes, i got following error message when i run FEFF ************** Feff 6L.02 WARNING: TWO ATOMS VERY CLOSE TOGETHER. CHECK INPUT. atoms 11 20 11 -3.01973 -0.20361 1.44233 20 -3.54653 -0.05083 0.83053 Run continues... WARNING: TWO ATOMS VERY CLOSE TOGETHER. CHECK INPUT. atoms 46 62 46 -0.40014 -0.20361 5.03633 62 0.12666 -0.05083 5.64813 Run continues... Sodium Potassium Aluminium Chromium Iron Manganese Phosphate Hydrate Al Cr Fe7.53 H2 K1.21 Mn6 Na3 O50 P12 Kallfa\&s, Christoph Crystal structure, chemical composition and thermal behaviour of arrojadite Calculating potentials and phases... free atom potential and density for atom type 0 free atom potential and density for atom type 1 free atom potential and density for atom type 2 free atom potential and density for atom type 3 free atom potential and density for atom type 4 free atom potential and density for atom type 5 free atom potential and density for atom type 6 free atom potential and density for atom type 7 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 0 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 1 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 2 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 3 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 4 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 5 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 6 overlapped potential and density for unique potential 7 muffin tin radii and interstitial parameters phase shifts for unique potential 0 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 1 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 2 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 3 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 4 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 5 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 6 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. phase shifts for unique potential 7 Hard tests failed in fovrg. Muffin-tin radius may be too large; coordination number too small. Preparing plane wave scattering amplitudes... nncrit in prcrit 9 Searching for paths... Rmax 7.0000 keep and heap limits 0.0000000 0.0000000 Preparing neighbor table nfound nheap nheapx nsc r 1000 469 469 3 5.2890 2000 730 730 3 5.7147 3000 907 907 3 5.9455 4000 1040 1040 3 6.1157 5000 1177 1177 3 6.2616 6000 1319 1319 3 6.3835 7000 1412 1413 3 6.4825 8000 1443 1444 3 6.5749 9000 1469 1473 3 6.6585 10000 1432 1474 3 6.7377 11000 1367 1474 3 6.8062 12000 1202 1474 3 6.8680 13000 870 1474 3 6.9289 14000 251 1474 3 6.9856 . . . . . .. . This warning indicates a problem in the Atoms list. For some reason you have atoms that are separated by than 0.93 Angstroms (or 1.75 Rydberg). This may be due to the presence of hydrogen atoms in your feff.inp file, in which case this is an innocuous warning and may be ignored. However, this may indicate a problem constructing the Atoms list. The most common cause of this problem is a mistake in the crystallographic data used on the Atoms page. You may have incorrect values for lattice constants or angles or incorrect values for site coordinates. You may need a shift vector to move the lattice into its standard setting. Please be aware that Atoms works with 5 digits of precision. Thus, if you have a site with a coordinate of 1/3, you should use either "1/3" or "0.33333" on the Atoms page. Using insufficient precision, say "0.333" is a common cause of this error message. Artemis has continued on the possibility that the warning is caused by hydrogen atoms, but be warned that the feff.inp may require your attention. ************************************ I have attached both *original.cif file* (with all 8 atomic species and fractional occupancy) and *modified.cif file* (Cr replaced by Al and all site occupancy set to 1) with this mail for your perusal. I hope some experts in the mailing list would suggest me some solutions. Many more thanks in advance for your valuable time and suggestions.... Best regards, Rana