Term: Cis-vacant

Cis-vacant

A dioctahedral phyllosilicate where the vacancy is ordered and occurs in the octahedral site where the OH,F anions reside on adjacent corners of the octahedron (i.e., cis orientation). Alternatively, the description of the cis site is off the mirror plane (based on the idealized layer symmetry, not necessarily the structure in its entirety) of the layer.
Cf., transvacant